[Emacs, Xorg?] Different icons for servers

[Emacs, Xorg?] Different icons for servers

[Rasmus]

Hi,

I would like to start Emacs servers, that are recognized as separate
programs and have separate icons.

I use Emacs for various purposes such as music, email, note capturing, and
"the rest".  For some of these I like to run dedicated daemons/servers.
E.g. this is how I start EMMS (from emms.desktop):

emacsclient -s emms -ca '' --eval "(progn (toggle-frame-maximized) (emms-smart-browse))" -F '((title . "EMMS"))'

I would like to communicate to X or my DE (Gnome-Shell) that each Emacs
server is a separate program with it's own "class".  I think this is would
be "changing the x-resource-class for each server" in Emacs lingo.

Further, I would like to change the icon associated with a server.  I
tried to add something like the following to my -F cons list:

(icon-type . "/home/rasmus/.local/share/icons/emms.png")

But it did not seem to have an effect.

I would appreciate help on this.

Thanks,
Rasmus

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Re: [Emacs, Xorg?] Different icons for servers

[Rasmus]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> I would like to communicate to X or my DE (Gnome-Shell) that each Emacs
> server is a separate program with it's own "class".  I think this is would
> be "changing the x-resource-class for each server" in Emacs lingo.

Just for the archives, I solved this with the hack here:

    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1532639

Rasmus

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Re: [Emacs, Xorg?] Different icons for servers

[Javier]

> I would like to start Emacs servers, that are recognized as separate
> programs and have separate icons.
> 
> I would like to communicate to X or my DE (Gnome-Shell) that each Emacs
> server is a separate program with it's own "class".  I think this is would
> be "changing the x-resource-class for each server" in Emacs lingo.

My guess is that if you are using emacs compiled with gtk toolkit (it
is the default) it will ignore the x-resources .

Try emacs compiled with the lucid toolkit.  You can look in your
distro for an emacs-lucid package or compile it yourself with

./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid  ; make ; sudo make install

lucid will cooperate with x-resources.  If that doesn't work try
replacing gnome with a simple window manager, not a desktop
environment.  Gnome (also possibly kde and other desktops) may have
dropped x-resources usage.

Re: [Emacs, Xorg?] Different icons for servers

[Rasmus]

Hi Javier,

Javier <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

>> I would like to start Emacs servers, that are recognized as separate
>> programs and have separate icons.
>> 
>> I would like to communicate to X or my DE (Gnome-Shell) that each Emacs
>> server is a separate program with it's own "class".  I think this is would
>> be "changing the x-resource-class for each server" in Emacs lingo.
>
> My guess is that if you are using emacs compiled with gtk toolkit (it
> is the default) it will ignore the x-resources .
>
> Try emacs compiled with the lucid toolkit.  You can look in your
> distro for an emacs-lucid package or compile it yourself with
>
> ./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid  ; make ; sudo make install

I quite like Emacs with GTK.  So given that I compile with GTK toolkit, I
would like to find a solution.

> lucid will cooperate with x-resources.  If that doesn't work try
> replacing gnome with a simple window manager, not a desktop
> environment.

I also use i3, but less so these days since I got more RAM.

> Gnome (also possibly kde and other desktops) may have dropped
> x-resources usage.

I don't think so, but I'm not sure.

Thanks,
Rasmus

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Re: [Emacs, Xorg?] Different icons for servers

[Javier]

> I quite like Emacs with GTK.  So given that I compile with GTK toolkit, I
> would like to find a solution.

You can try to look at the emacs manual for gtk resources.

(info "(emacs) GTK Resource Basics")
(info "(emacs) Icons X")