GNU bug report logs - #41719
28.0.50; emacsclient -c -F '((name . "NAME"))' is not respected --with-x-toolkit=gtk3

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 41719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name' option as emacs
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:13:13 +0800

Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> I'm using AwesomeWM and it allows me to set windows in different tags (think
> of them as "workspaces"). I have two "instances" (two a bit different
> configurations) of Emacs, one for programming and one for other tasks (i.e.
> they use different packages). I prefer to run first instance ("other") on
> "emacs" tag while second instance is placed in "misc" tag.

AwesomeWM should provide a different mechanism, such as one based on the
WM_NAME property instead.

Setting the WM_CLASS to something other than `x-resource-name' and
`x-resource-class' is not supported on GTK builds, and is probably a bad
idea, since it will mess with X resources.

> Of course, this is WM (X actually) dependent feature and I'm not sure if it
> would work on Wayland. Now I build emacs with 'pgtk' and didn't check how it
> works.

It can't work on Wayland, since the WM_CLASS doesn't exist there.

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