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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Serge Baranov
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Please see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-130368 and the linked issues.

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  1. Shift + Shift or from the top menu in IntelliJ -> Help -> Find Action
  2. Then type Registry and click on it
  3. Scroll to ide.appIcon.badge and uncheck the box to disable taskbar numeric notification badge
  4. Also uncheck the box for ide.appIcon.requestAttention to disable progress bar overlay on the taskbar/dock.
  5. If that does not work, close and reopen Intellij
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