Emacs and Exceed quirky question.

Emacs and Exceed quirky question.

[DaLoverhino]

Hello.  I run exceed at work, and use GNU emacs + exceed xterm to do
unix development.  When I type 'emacs -T MyProject', an emacs window
pops up with 'MyProject' as the title of the emacs window.  The same
label appears in the task bar.

However, when I minimize the window, and look at my task bar, the label
disappears, and is replaced by 'emacs@machine.blah'.

How do I have it so that the title 'MyProject' appears in the task bar
regardless of whether the window is opened or minimized?  (The reason
being, is that I'll have 2-3 emacs windows up with different projects
in them.)

Thanks.

Re: Emacs and Exceed quirky question.

[ChunYe Wang]

"DaLoverhino" <DaLoveRhino@hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello.  I run exceed at work, and use GNU emacs + exceed xterm to do
> unix development.  When I type 'emacs -T MyProject', an emacs window
> pops up with 'MyProject' as the title of the emacs window.  The same
> label appears in the task bar.
> 
> However, when I minimize the window, and look at my task bar, the label
> disappears, and is replaced by 'emacs@machine.blah'.
> 
> How do I have it so that the title 'MyProject' appears in the task bar
> regardless of whether the window is opened or minimized?  (The reason
> being, is that I'll have 2-3 emacs windows up with different projects
> in them.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 

the following is my preference. 

(setq frame-title-format '((:eval (getenv-internal "LOGNAME")) 
                           "@"
                           (:eval (system-name))
                           ":"
                           (:eval (or (buffer-file-name)
                           (buffer-name)))))

your requirment is too simple for emacs.

(setq frame-title-format "MyProject")

Start multiple emacs instance is not a good idea. it is difficult to
exchange information between them. 


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Wang ChunYe

Re: Emacs and Exceed quirky question.

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.02.2006 um 19:59 schrieb DaLoverhino:

> How do I have it so that the title 'MyProject' appears in the task bar
> regardless of whether the window is opened or minimized?

Could be "-xrm 'Emacs*iconName: MyProject'" works ...

Another way to lookup information is info: C-h i m Emacs <RET> m  
Resources <RET> (TAB is possible to complete a name).

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Re: Emacs and Exceed quirky question.

[Kevin Rodgers]

DaLoverhino wrote:
> Hello.  I run exceed at work, and use GNU emacs + exceed xterm to do
> unix development.  When I type 'emacs -T MyProject', an emacs window
> pops up with 'MyProject' as the title of the emacs window.  The same
> label appears in the task bar.
> 
> However, when I minimize the window, and look at my task bar, the label
> disappears, and is replaced by 'emacs@machine.blah'.
> 
> How do I have it so that the title 'MyProject' appears in the task bar
> regardless of whether the window is opened or minimized?  (The reason
> being, is that I'll have 2-3 emacs windows up with different projects
> in them.)

Specifying the -T (aka -title) command line option calls x-handle-switch
(see startup.el), which adds the title frame parameter to
default-frame-alist (see term/x-win.el).

According to the Window Frame Parameters node of the Emacs Lisp manual,
the icon-name frame parameter defaults to the frame title.  So the
behavior you're seeing should not happen, unless something else has set
the icon-name frame parameter (or the iconName X resource).  What
happens when you run: emacs --no-site-file -q -T MyProject

What happens if you put this in your ~/.emacs (and run emacs with just
the -T MyProject option): (setq icon-title-format frame-title-format)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers