From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, lomov.vl@yandex.ru, 41719@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 11:00:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835yl6wbu0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1y2uxmu.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Visuwesh on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:22:25 +0530)
> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, lomov.vl@yandex.ru, 41719@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:22:25 +0530
>
> >> I think what Vladmir wants is for two copies of Emacs to be displayed as
> >> two "different" applications by pagers and window managers, which rely
> >> on the WM_CLASS property of a window to associate it with an
> >> application.
> >
> > Why? What would that gain in user-level terms?
>
> WM_CLASS and WM_NAME are commonly matched against in "window manager
> rules." For example, I have a script that essentially calls
> `make-frame' with a specific frame `name' [*] which I then match against
> in my window manager configuration to move the frame to the top right
> corner of my screen.
Why cannot you do the same by invoking emacsclient?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-12 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-05 3:09 bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs Vladimir Lomov
2020-06-05 11:14 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-05 16:53 ` Vladimir Lomov
2020-06-06 12:36 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-06-06 14:52 ` Vladimir Lomov
2020-06-06 17:08 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-06-06 18:24 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-06-07 14:26 ` bug#41719: 28.0.50; emacsclient -c -F '((name . "NAME"))' is not respected --with-x-toolkit=gtk328.0.50 (Was: [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs) Vladimir Lomov
2020-06-07 16:15 ` bug#41719: 28.0.50; emacsclient -c -F '((name . "NAME"))' is not respected --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-06-09 7:12 ` Vladimir Lomov
2022-02-10 7:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-12 22:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-11 13:00 ` bug#41719: 28.0.50; emacsclient -c -F '((name . "NAME"))' is Colin Horne
2022-06-11 13:46 ` Colin Horne
2022-06-12 5:10 ` bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-12 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 6:40 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-12 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 7:06 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-12 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 7:52 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-12 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-12 8:47 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-12 8:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-12 8:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-06-12 8:49 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-12 8:27 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-12 8:54 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-12 9:11 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-14 3:04 ` Vladimir Lomov
2022-06-14 4:13 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-14 6:00 ` Vladimir Lomov
2022-06-14 6:19 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-14 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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