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Emacs by default does not ask if you are sure you want to exit Emacs, so I added this to my configuration to prompt me to answer yes or no before quitting Emacs.

  (setq confirm-kill-emacs 'y-or-n-p)        ;; Confirm before killing emacs

I use evil-mode so if I try to exit with :wq or :w it does prompt me in the mini buffer, but (as I am a WM only user using DWM) if I press Super+Shift+c shortcut for my WM to close a program, it prompts me with a dialog instead of the minibuffer.

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How do I set it so no matter what, always prefer the minibuffer, not just for prompting this, but for any kind of prompt, I would prefer the minibuffer. For example I have mu4e also setup for my Email, and every time I try to resync the mails, it asks for my GPG authentication passphrase, in a GUI dialog. I would also like that to be in the minibuffer, so I want this setting to be globally set.

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    FWIW the default behaviour is intended to react with GUI dialogs when you use the mouse to invoke a command, and the minibuffer when you use the keyboard. Presumably Emacs can't tell the difference between "GUI window killed by mouse" and "GUI window killed by GUI window manager". – phils Jun 22 '21 at 01:53
  • Yea, I figured that. Thanks for confirming I guess. – apoorv569 Jun 22 '21 at 06:21

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This is controlled through the use-dialog-box variable. Either put this in your init file:

(setq use-dialog-box nil)

or use the Customize interface.

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  • Though it's not involved specifically for this question, you might want to also mention option `use-file-dialog`. – Drew Jun 19 '21 at 13:40
  • @Gilles thanks `use-dialog-box` fixed the issue. – apoorv569 Jun 19 '21 at 17:16
  • @Drew What is the `use-file-dialog` for? I mean when does it appears, I never until now saw it. – apoorv569 Jun 19 '21 at 17:17
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    @apoorv569 It causes the OS's file-open dialog to be used instead of prompting for a file name in the minibuffer. But that only happens when file opening is triggered by a GUI actions such as a toolbar button or the menu (see the manual for details). And only if `use-dialog-box` is on anyway. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jun 19 '21 at 20:20
  • I see, I don't use toolbar, I have set the `tool-bar-mode -1`. I pretty much made Emacs look like Doom Emacs, as I was using it, before switching to vanilla Emacs. So I'm slowly learning how vanilla Emacs works. – apoorv569 Jun 20 '21 at 02:32