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howto:several_signal_desktop_instances

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Run Signal Desktop instances in parallel

In order to run several Signal desktop instances in parallel, you can pass a –user-data-dir=<path> commandline option to signal-desktop.

With Signal Desktop flatpak

When Signal Desktop is installed via flatpak, do the following:

$ cp /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.signal.Signal/current/stable/active/files/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/Signal2.desktop 

Then edit ~/.local/share/applications/Signal2.desktop and change lines 2-3 as follows (replace <user> with your username):

Name=Signal 2
Exec=flatpak run org.signal.Signal --user-data-dir=/home/<user>/.var/app/org.signal.Signal/config/Signal2 %U

Afterwards, you should find the second instance of Signal Desktop as „Signal 2“ in your application launcher.

howto/several_signal_desktop_instances.1645742700.txt.gz · Zuletzt geändert: 2022/02/24 23:45 von doobry

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