How to pin browser profiles into taskbar?

ditendra08 · 5 January 2022 16:11

Hi,
I’m trying to figure out how I can pin browser profiles into taskbar. This is very important for me. I want it like this:

However, it looks like this on Manjaro:

ishaan2479 · 5 January 2022 16:14

right click and pin to task manager to pin the browser. this will resume from the last closed profile

to pin different user profiles is quit different. you have to create a new .desktop file for each user profile. follow this guide →

kisun · 5 January 2022 16:17

I dont know how chrome do manage profiles but with firefox you can start it this way:

firefox -p profilename

Just adjust the starter. Run only ‘firefox -p’ will start the profile manager to setup new profiles.

Perhaps chrome does it the same way.

ditendra08 · 5 January 2022 17:56

This guide seems complicated for me. I didn’t understand it well. Is there any video tutorial how to do it?

ditendra08 · 5 January 2022 17:57

I don’t understand this either. What is this code and where I’m supposed to paste it?

ishaan2479 · 5 January 2022 17:57

check this out then:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/493142/can-i-put-two-chrome-different-users-on-my-launcher

ditendra08 · 5 January 2022 18:27

Tried first suggestion by Fillipo, pasted that code in terminal and got this:
*   ~  sudo apt-get install gnome-panel  *
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new
*[sudo] password for jaba: *
sudo: apt-get: command not found
zsh: command not found: gnome-desktop-item-edit

I think it’s for gnome and I’m using kde?

Anyway, tried option two, created that file, it was hidden and I had to unhide it and when I went to permission tab to click Allow executing file as program, I didn’t see such thing there.

ishaan2479 · 5 January 2022 19:08

first of all i am little sorry that i didn’t made things clear before

apt is the package manager on debian based distros. on arch and manjaro use pacman.

you are right but this was the first answer

Screenshot_20220106_002335

fillipino’s answer was second.

now the important part

we will make different profiles for different users just follow this and revert back in case of any issue.

we will create a different application(.desktop file) which will open a specific profile of a user. Default is profile-directory for the first profile you created but we don’t need to touch that. Profile 1 is the profile-directory for the second profile. say the name of profile 2 user is chris

Screenshot_20220106_002838

(you can change chris to any other name but use the same name untill the last step)

run this command:

kate .local/share/applications/google-chrome-chris.desktop

copy paste this in the editor and change chris to profile 2’s name:

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Comment=Access the Internet
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --profile-directory="Profile 1" %U
GenericName=Web Browser
Icon=google-chrome-avatar-generic-green
MimeType=text/html;image/webp;application/xml;
Name=Google Chrome (Chris)
Path=
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=google_chrome_chris

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --profile-directory="Profile 1"
Name=New Window

[Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow]
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --profile-directory="Profile 1" --incognito
Name=New Incognito Window

save and exit kate. now run this command:

kbuildsycoca5

now a google chrome (chris) with chris’s profile will appear in app launcher and you can seperately pin it to task manager. if we want to create a different profile for chris’s wife christine then every step will be same except her name ofc and profile directory will be Profile 2

we can also change our dear chris’s google chrome icon but first let’s get this step right

ditendra08 · 6 January 2022 18:38

Sorry for the late reply, just got home…

Something’s not working. When I run first comman, I get this:

    ~  kate .local/share/applications/google-chrome-chris.desktop                                     ✔ 
Icon theme "ubuntu-mono-dark" not found.
Icon theme "Mint-X" not found.
Icon theme "elementary" not found.
kf.sonnet.core: Sonnet: Unable to load plugin "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_aspell.so" Error: "Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_aspell.so: (libaspell.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
kf.sonnet.core: Sonnet: Unable to load plugin "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_hspell.so" Error: "Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_hspell.so: (libhspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
kf.sonnet.core: Sonnet: Unable to load plugin "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_voikko.so" Error: "Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_voikko.so: (libvoikko.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
kf.sonnet.core: Sonnet: Unable to load plugin "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_aspell.so" Error: "Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_aspell.so: (libaspell.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
kf.sonnet.core: Sonnet: Unable to load plugin "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_hspell.so" Error: "Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_hspell.so: (libhspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
kf.sonnet.core: Sonnet: Unable to load plugin "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_voikko.so" Error: "Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/sonnet/sonnet_voikko.so: (libvoikko.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US" trying to load en_US as default
kf.sonnet.core: No language dictionaries for the language: "en_US"
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Icon theme "ubuntu-mono-dark" not found.
Icon theme "Mint-X" not found.
Icon theme "elementary" not found.

Is this supposed to happen? I do the rest thing, but it doesn’t do anything.

ishaan2479 · 6 January 2022 18:43

yes this happens when you launch a gui app from terminal. kate is the default text-editor in kde. have you edited and saved the file??

you can change chris to any other name but change it everywhere then

ditendra08 · 6 January 2022 18:48

Yes, I did. I changed word Chris with profile 2 in two places in that code like you said:

Then I ran another command and it says running in konsole, but that’s it. How I know that it worked?

ishaan2479 · 6 January 2022 18:51

if you have ran this command then search for google chrome (chris) from application launcher. it should appear with profile 1

ditendra08 · 6 January 2022 18:52

Yes, I did that. It says running in konsole:

I’m willing to switch to Firefox, if this doesn’t work with Chrome.

ishaan2479 · 6 January 2022 18:53

in your case a google chrome (profile 2) should appear

ditendra08 · 6 January 2022 18:57

Yes you’re right. It did appear. Then I changed profile 2 back to chris and now chris appears there, finally, but I think it still didn’t fix my problem, because when I opened it, it still got stacked with current profile together. Let me create another profile for my wife and let’s see if it still stacks.

ishaan2479 · 6 January 2022 19:00

this is the important part. see the order:

Default (or the first profile)
Profile 1
Profile 2 …

wherever chris is written you can change that.

for a new profile change google-chrome-chris.desktop to google-chrome-something_else_1.desktop then google-chrome-something_else_2.desktop …

share screenshot

ditendra08 · 6 January 2022 19:03

I created another profile for Lisa, changed chris with Lisa and ran the command to open kate, pasted same code but replaced name chris with Lisa and proceed with same method. They still stack

ishaan2479 · 6 January 2022 19:06

this is the issue. change it to something else and WITHOUT ANY SPACE. example google_chrome_profile_2 and run this command kbuildsycoca5 and relaunch new profile

ditendra08 · 6 January 2022 19:08

okay, I’m pasting this code in Kate now:

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Comment=Access the Internet
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --profile-directory="Profile 1" %U
GenericName=Web Browser
Icon=google-chrome-avatar-generic-green
MimeType=text/html;image/webp;application/xml;
Name=Google Chrome (profile 2)
Path=
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=google_chrome_profile_2

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --profile-directory="Profile 1"
Name=New Window

[Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow]
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --profile-directory="Profile 1" --incognito
Name=New Incognito Window

ishaan2479 · 6 January 2022 19:11

Screenshot_20220107_004033

3 different profiles and none stack