Hello, ** Dmitry Alexandrov [2020-06-07 19:15:40 +0300]: > Vladimir Lomov wrote: >> So, emacsclient with -F > (make-frame '((name . "NAME"))), actually. >> should change 'instance' but when Emacs is build with GTK/GTK3 emacs >> doesn't change it. Do I correctly understand this? > Only with GTK3. GTK2 is fine as well. >> Is it mean that this is a bug? > If a missing feature, that is present on a slightly different platform, is a > bug. Itʼs not necessary a bug in Emacs, though. Maybe, besides declaring a > ability to set a window class deprecated [1], GTK developers had actually > broken it. > [1] : > | gtk_window_set_wmclass has been deprecated since version 3.22 and should not be used in newly-written code. > | > | Don’t use this function. It sets the X Window System “class” and “name” > | hints for a window. According to the ICCCM, you should always set these to > | the same value for all windows in an application, and GTK+ sets them to that > | value by default, so calling this function is sort of pointless. However, > | you may want to call gtk_window_set_role() on each window in your > | application, for the benefit of the session manager. Setting the role allows > | the window manager to restore window positions when loading a saved session. So, this is dead-end but I'm glad that 'role' is still kept. Is it possible to implement this ('role' instead of 'instance') in gtk backend and in emacsclient? --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- Double Bucky, you're the one, You make my keyboard so much fun, Double Bucky, an additional bit or two, (Vo-vo-de-o) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, 9 bits wide! Double Bucky, a half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I, Had a couple of bits more! Perhaps a set of pedals to make the number of bits four. Double Double Bucky! Double Bucky left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double Bucky, I'd like a whole word of, Double Bucky, I'm happy I heard of, Double Bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! -- to Nicholas Wirth, who suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36-bit machines for use by screen editors. [to the tune of "Rubber Ducky"]