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bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as e
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs |
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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?
- bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs, Po Lu, 2022/06/12
- bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs, Po Lu, 2022/06/12
- bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs, Visuwesh, 2022/06/12
- bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs, Po Lu, 2022/06/12
- bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs, Vladimir Lomov, 2022/06/13
- bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs, Po Lu, 2022/06/14
- bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs, Vladimir Lomov, 2022/06/14