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: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, lomov.vl <at> yandex.ru, 41719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41719: 28.0.50; [FR] emacsclient should provide '--name'
 option as emacs
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:17:05 +0530

[ஞாயிறு ஜூன் 12, 2022 11:00] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>,  lomov.vl <at> yandex.ru,  41719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:22:25 +0530
>> 
>> 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?

I admit that my example was quite poor, but there are some things that
are strictly out of control of Emacs like,

    1. Moving an Emacs frame to a specific virtual desktop / workspace /
       tag / group, etc.  People call the "workspace" feature by a
       billion different names.

    2. Make a specific Emacs frame "floating" in tiling window
       managers.

I'm not a heavy user of these "window manager rules" so I may not do
enough justification here.

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