Re: gnome-shell and custom desktop files

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 2011-11-08 at 12:09, Aurélien Naldi wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:14:58AM +0100, Aurélien Naldi wrote:
> >> profiles. As I understand, the shell will not work as I expect unless
> >> these applications are adapted to change the WM_CLASS property
> >> depending on the current profile. I can't find a way to do so on
> >> gnome-terminal, I guess I will report a bug there...
> >
> > There already is a command line option for it:
> >  --class=CLASS                   Program class as used by the window manager
> >
> 
> I forgot this one as it does not appear in the default --help output,
> but anyway it does not work.
> A bug  was reported about this years ago and marked as wontfix:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85068
> 
> Would it make sense to reopen it?

no.

that bug is against gnome-terminal; the --class command line argument is
provided by GTK+ itself. if you're not using GTK+ then you'll have to
implement it on your own application and/or toolkit.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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