Assigning different titles to 2 instances of GIMP?

[Stewart Russell]

I suspect Walt's need for two versions will be something to do with
script compatibilty. His workflow is not my workflow, but his workflow
is okay ;-)

 Stewart

On 8/15/11, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:11:53AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>   I'm not even going to try to explain my camera workflow. Let's just
>> say that I need to have 2 instances of GIMP open.  Switching to the
>> right instance is painfull, because both instances show up with the same
>> name on the dashboard and on the {ALT}{TAB} menu.  Is there an
>> incantation that will allow me to open an instance with a title bar
>> other than the generic "GNU Image Manipulation Program".
>
> Given the gimp can handle multiple files at once, I am courious what
> circumstance would make having two instances useful.
>
> Now gtk options (as shown by gimp --help-all) seems to say gimp
> --name=FooGimp should work, but it does not.  Seems the gimp doesn't
> actually obey the gtk options.  Probably because it is multi window and
> explicitly controls the window titles.
>
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