Roméo La Spina <romeo.laspina1@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello,
>
> I have a little problem concerning org-clock.
> When resolving clocks, either because of a long idleness or because of
> dangling clocks, there is a prompt to ask the user if they want to keep
> idle time, substract it, etc...
> But when another event than the response occurs (typically, I come back
> to my computer, I don't see the prompt and I click somewhere), an
> exception "Non-character input event" is raised, and the prompt
> disappear, making it impossible to resolve the clock later.
>
> When googling the error message I saw that the problem might be due to
> the use of the function read-char when prompting the user, which is
> indeed used in the function that resolve clocks.
>
> Is there a solution to wait for the user to answer the prompt, like a
> classical yes-no prompt?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Romeo
>
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.27, cairo version 1.17.4)
>  of 2021-03-26
> Package: Org mode version 9.4.4 (release_9.4.4 @ /usr/share/emacs/27.2/lisp/org/)