Re: Emacs and Exceed quirky question.

[Kevin Rodgers]

DaLoverhino wrote:
> Hello.  I run exceed at work, and use GNU emacs + exceed xterm to do
> unix development.  When I type 'emacs -T MyProject', an emacs window
> pops up with 'MyProject' as the title of the emacs window.  The same
> label appears in the task bar.
>
> However, when I minimize the window, and look at my task bar, the label
> disappears, and is replaced by 'emacs@machine.blah'.
>
> How do I have it so that the title 'MyProject' appears in the task bar
> regardless of whether the window is opened or minimized?  (The reason
> being, is that I'll have 2-3 emacs windows up with different projects
> in them.)

Specifying the -T (aka -title) command line option calls x-handle-switch
(see startup.el), which adds the title frame parameter to
default-frame-alist (see term/x-win.el).

According to the Window Frame Parameters node of the Emacs Lisp manual,
the icon-name frame parameter defaults to the frame title.  So the
behavior you're seeing should not happen, unless something else has set
the icon-name frame parameter (or the iconName X resource).  What
happens when you run: emacs --no-site-file -q -T MyProject

What happens if you put this in your ~/.emacs (and run emacs with just
the -T MyProject option): (setq icon-title-format frame-title-format)

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Kevin Rodgers