IntelliJ keeps flashing the task bar icon on Windows 10.

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IntelliJ keeps flashing the taskbar icon to request focus whenever I change between the "virtual desktops" on Windows 10.

This is very annoying and as far as I can see there is no way to disable this. If I cannot control when exactly IntelliJ requests focus, then I at least want the option to turn it off entirely.

I only want it to flash when certain things happen. I want to disable it entirely for all other use cases. It flashes when it finishes indexing, finishing tests, and who knows what else. I just want the ability to disable the focus requests entirely.

I found this post about it, but it doesn't look like anything came from it: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206813235-Don-t-Keep-Flashing-The-Task-Bar-Icon-

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Here's an example:

I want to disable this. I know it's Windows-specific behavior, but it's requesting focus and that should be able to be disabled in the settings.

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