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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@yandex.ru>
Cc: 41719@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:10:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfoah3gl.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87img65htu.fsf@smoon.bkoty.ru> (Vladimir Lomov's message of "Fri, 05 Jun 2020 11:09:49 +0800")

Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@yandex.ru> writes:

> The 'emacs' allows to set the so-called 'instance' when run in X window
> system using '--name' option. The same time the 'emacsclient' doesn't
> have such option and if 'emacs' is run in daemon mode ('emacs
> --daemon=...') it is impossible (?) to change the 'instance' of emacs
> window (frame in Emacs terminology) created by 'emacsclient'.
>
> I tried to use '-F' option of 'emacsclient' but I didn't get desire
> result, WM_CLASS isn't changed, only WM_ICON_NAME. It is possible that I
> do things wrong,
>
>   $ emacsclient -s /run/user/1000/emacs-default -F '((name . "default") (title . "USER@HOST"))'
>
> but this topic is covered by manual (Emacs, 21.11 "Frame Parameters" and
> Emacs Lisp 29.4.3 "Window Frame Parameters") very unclear.
>
> Even if it is possible to change the 'instance' of Emacs window created
> by 'emacsclient' using the '-F' option it would be nice to have more
> simple way to achieve this. On the other hand, if Emacs is run in daemon
> mode it is the purpose of emacsclient to (allow to) set the 'instance'
> and 'title' of created window.

Could you please show where in the manual it is unclear?
I don't think we have any support at all for setting the WM_CLASS of
Emacs on a per-frame basis.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-12  5:10 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 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-06-12  6:32   ` bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs 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
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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