Re: Run 23 in the background in GNOME?

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@comcast.net> writes:

  > Hi all,
  > 
  > Been running 23 from CVS for some time. First, great work to all the
  > devs!
  > 
  > This weekend, I decided to alter my modus operandi, such that Emacs
  > would be loaded at my login to GNOME and then enable me to run
  > emacsclient to speed up the loading and editing of subsequent
  > files. BTW, this is on Fedora 9.
  > 
  > Based upon entries in the Wiki and others that I found via Google, I
  > enable the server in ~/.emacs and have set my default editor in .bashrc
  > to a modification/simplification of the emacs.bash script for 23, that I
  > put into ~/bin/emacs23, which is run at login.
  > 
  > This is working great, with one exception. When I run Emacs at login, I
  > use the --iconic argument, so that the Emacs window is not displayed on
  > the desktop. There are times however, when I accidentally click on the
  > Emacs icon on the dock (Avant-Window-Navigator), bringing up the window
  > and then subsequently close it, losing the advantage of the
  > server/emacsclient combination. Yeah, I know....stop doing that...  :-)
  > 
  > I have tried various incantations of running Emacs in the background
  > (using &), both as part of a startup session in the GUI and from bash,
  > without success. In checking for the presence of /tmp/emacs${UID}/server
  > or ${HOME}/.emacs_server in the emacs23 script, I cannot seem to get it
  > to stick reliably, while keeping Emacs in the background, so that it
  > does not show up on the desktop at all, even iconized. I have also
  > attempted to use the window settings in Compiz-Fusion to have the
  > initial iconized Emacs session skip the taskbar, as an alternative,
  > without success however.
  > 
  > Anyone have any ideas/suggestions to get Emacs to run at login, while
  > not showing up on the desktop or the taskbar, so that it is effectively
  > invisible as a user, thus enabling me to consistently use emacsclient
  > for all subsequent operations?
  > 
  > Thanks in advance.

You can do this using "emacs --daemon" after applying the patch here:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/103368