Hello, ** Po Lu [2022-06-14 12:13:13 +0800]: > Vladimir Lomov writes: >> I'm using AwesomeWM and it allows me to set windows in different tags (think >> of them as "workspaces"). I have two "instances" (two a bit different >> configurations) of Emacs, one for programming and one for other tasks (i.e. >> they use different packages). I prefer to run first instance ("other") on >> "emacs" tag while second instance is placed in "misc" tag. > AwesomeWM should provide a different mechanism, such as one based on the > WM_NAME property instead. Yes, I checked and indeed WM_NAME is different for these two instances. I'll change my AwesomeWM configuration to use this variable. > Setting the WM_CLASS to something other than `x-resource-name' and > `x-resource-class' is not supported on GTK builds, and is probably a bad > idea, since it will mess with X resources. >> Of course, this is WM (X actually) dependent feature and I'm not sure if it >> would work on Wayland. Now I build emacs with 'pgtk' and didn't check how it >> works. > It can't work on Wayland, since the WM_CLASS doesn't exist there. I agree, that's why I think now it is worthless to change anything in this area. Right now I use very little Wayland DE (GNOME), so didn't investigate how to work with frames in Wayland. I think this ticket should be closed. --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Anton Chekhov