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I created two distinct .desktop launchers for two different firefox profiles:

  • profile1.desktop

    sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=profile1
    Keywords=profile1
    Exec=firefox -P -no-remote profile1
    Terminal=false
    X-MultipleArgs=false
    Type=Application
    Icon=profile1.png
    StartupNotify=true
    StartupWMClass=profile1

  • profile2.desktop

    sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/firefox_profile2.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=profile2
Keywords=profile2
Exec=firefox -P -no-remote profile2
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=profile2.png
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=profile2

I then added each desktop launcher to the dashboard (via right-click > add to favorites). I am able to launch each profile from the respective launcher-icon in the dashboard. So far so good. However, when profile2 is launched, its window will be listed/collected under the profile1 (default) firefox dash icon, which can get quite confusing.

I would really like to display and collect windows from different firefox profiles under different dash items (i.e. icons in the dashboard). I suspect the problem is - since both .dekstop launchers execute different processes of the same /usr/bin/firefox command - that they are automatically collected under some firefox dash icon...

Does anyone have an idea how to resolve this issue?

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  • I have no idea if this will work, but try this: create a second executable that is merely a symbolic link to the first one sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox2 and use firefox2 in the Exec line of profile2.desktop.
    – Jos
    May 14, 2017 at 22:57
  • Thanks @Jos, but unfortunately creating a symbolic link and invoking that one from the exec line in the .dekstop file does not help: The profile.2 windows are still collected under the profile.1 dash icon. To me this is quite frustrating; why is it not possible to collect windows from different firefox processes under different dash items...? :/
    – LUser
    May 15, 2017 at 10:17

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I have two firefox profiles on my 16.04 box with two different icons in the dashboard.

What I did was create two desktop short cuts. For the first one the command to run it is firefox %u. For the second one the command to run it is firefox -no-remote -P ScriptUser. When I launch these I get two different instances of Firefox. I have pinned each to the dashboard and given each a different name for ease of identification. This works for me. Now I'm trying to establish how to do the same thing, but in cairo-dock. So far that's proving less easy.

Hope that helps.

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    nice work! How did you set the commands to run it? Did you make a new .desktop file and edit it yourself?
    – Zanna ♦
    Sep 3, 2017 at 14:53
  • I created it using firefox -profilemanager which you can start from the terminal provided you don't have any instances of firefox already open.
    – Stevepar
    Sep 4, 2017 at 22:14
  • Hi @Stevepar , I tried to follow Your instructions, but it seems, when I launch the different .desktop links, the resulting application windows are again collected under the same dash icon. Could You maybe further explain Your approach?
    – LUser
    Sep 5, 2017 at 19:06

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