On 08/09/12 23:02, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Marco wrote:

Hi,

is it possible to set the WM_CLASS of gVim to a custom value?

If you're using a GTK version of gvim, you should be able to pass the
'--class' commandline argument.

e.g.:

$ gvim --class yay
$ xprop WM_CLASS
## ...then click on the window...
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "gvim", "yay"


Not sure this is documented anywhere.  Found it by source-diving.
There's a large set of:

     /* Arguments handled by GTK (and GNOME) internally. */

starting at line 333 of src/gui_gtk_x11.c


It is not documented in the Vim help AFAICT. But looking down that list suggests (and experiment shows) that typing

        vim -?

at a Unix-like shell prompt will give the help for GTK and GNOME command-line arguments if your "vim" binary was compiled with GNOME GUI support. However Vim still starts the editor in that case, so

        vim -? -cq

is better. You will still get an E852 error and a hit-Enter prompt after the help; just hit Enter to go back to the shell prompt.

Or else,

        vim --help
or
        vim --help |less

will give _both_ the Vim command-line help and the GTK/GNOME command-line help (if compiled-in). That's quite a lot of console output, hence the |less redirection.


Best regards,
Tony.
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