Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[Davis Herring]

>  I have another idea (might be considered crazy...) Is it possible to
> have something like a screen saver. On some duration of inactivity,
> bring up a buffer with all the required information. When there is
> mouse/keyboard activity, restore the previous active buffer. In this
> way, we make the information visible in a rather non intrusive manner.

It could be a new zone mode:
zone-gradually-replace-text-with-emacs-splash-screen

And users would have to sit through most of the transformation before they
could reliably read the instruction to dismiss it with M-x
zone-leave-me-alone... it's perfect!

Davis

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