Re: Run 23 in the background in GNOME?

[Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@comcast.net>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> 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

Wonderful. Thanks Dan!  I had in the back of my mind a 'service-like'
approach and this fits the bill. Good to see that it appears that it
will go into the trunk for 23.1 as a standard feature.

Cheers,

Marc