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bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as e


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 11:00:23 +0300

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  lomov.vl@yandex.ru,  41719@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:22:25 +0530
> 
> >> I think what Vladmir wants is for two copies of Emacs to be displayed as
> >> two "different" applications by pagers and window managers, which rely
> >> on the WM_CLASS property of a window to associate it with an
> >> application.
> >
> > Why?  What would that gain in user-level terms?
> 
> WM_CLASS and WM_NAME are commonly matched against in "window manager
> rules."  For example, I have a script that essentially calls
> `make-frame' with a specific frame `name' [*] which I then match against
> in my window manager configuration to move the frame to the top right
> corner of my screen.

Why cannot you do the same by invoking emacsclient?





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