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-File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q3.1.7, Next: Q3.1.8, Prev: Q3.1.6, Up: Customization
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-Q3.1.7: `xemacs -name junk' doesn't work?
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- When I run `xterm -name junk', I get an xterm whose class name
-according to xprop, is `junk'. This is the way it's supposed to work,
-I think. When I run `xemacs -name junk' the class name is not set to
-`junk'. It's still `emacs'. What does `xemacs -name' really do? The
-reason I ask is that my window manager (fvwm) will make a window sticky
-and I use XEmacs to read my mail. I want that XEmacs window to be
-sticky, without having to use the window manager's function to set the
-window sticky. What gives?
-
- `xemacs -name' sets the application name for the program (that is,
-the thing which normally comes from `argv[0]'). Using `-name' is the
-same as making a copy of the executable with that new name. The
-`WM_CLASS' property on each frame is set to the frame-name, and the
-application-class. So, if you did `xemacs -name FOO' and then created
-a frame named BAR, you'd get an X window with WM_CLASS = `( "BAR",
-"Emacs")'. However, the resource hierarchy for this widget would be:
-
- Name: FOO .shell .container .BAR
- Class: Emacs .TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.EmacsFrame
-
- instead of the default
-
- Name: xemacs.shell .container .emacs
- Class: Emacs .TopLevelEmacsShell.EmacsManager.EmacsFrame
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- It is arguable that the first element of WM_CLASS should be set to
-the application-name instead of the frame-name, but I think that's less
-flexible, since it does not give you the ability to have multiple frames
-with different WM_CLASS properties. Another possibility would be for
-the default frame name to come from the application name instead of
-simply being `emacs'. However, at this point, making that change would
-be troublesome: it would mean that many users would have to make yet
-another change to their resource files (since the default frame name
-would suddenly change from `emacs' to `xemacs', or whatever the
-executable happened to be named), so we'd rather avoid it.
-
- To make a frame with a particular name use:
-
- (make-frame '((name . "the-name")))
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-File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q3.1.8, Next: Q3.2.1, Prev: Q3.1.7, Up: Customization
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-Q3.1.8: `-iconic' doesn't work.
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- When I start up XEmacs using `-iconic' it doesn't work right. Using
-`-unmapped' on the command line, and setting the `initiallyUnmapped' X
-Resource don't seem to help much either...
-
- Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> writes:
-
- Ugh, this stuff is such an incredible mess that I've about given up
- getting it to work. The principal problem is numerous
- window-manager bugs...
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