On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Tony Mechelynck wrote:

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

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.

[...]

Not sure this is documented anywhere.  [...]

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.

`vim -?` gets me:

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Sep  9 2012 00:49:50)
Unknown option argument: "-?"
More info with: "vim -h"

So, "-?" must be handled by something guarded by FEAT_GNOME.


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.

`gvim --help` doesn't explain the "--name" or "--class" options, despite having a section with the heading:

    Arguments recognized by gvim (GTK+ version):

Were the options just overlooked?

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Best,
Ben

Other info from my current version:
Included patches: 1-618
Huge version with GTK2 GUI.

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