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A newbie helping newbies - Launch Firefox profile from shortcut. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently switched from Windows 10 to ZorrinOS (after a quick detour to NixOS... OOF) and in the course of setting things up how I like, I ran across some interesting stuff relating to flatpaks and shortcuts. I wanted to get this written to provide a resource for other people who might be switching.

This is a guide to making a shortcut to launch a particular Firefox profile, on a Ubuntu based distro, while running Firefox as a flatpak. This is just how I did it, put the files where you want.

Make a directory to hold the launch script and a shortcut icon. My script:

#!/bin/sh
flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox -p youtube

Obviously, make it executable.

Because Firefox is running as a flatpak we can't just launch it using firefox. They're actually stored in /var/lib/flatpak/app and can be launched like this.

https://opensource.com/article/21/5/launch-flatpaks-linux-terminal

Create a text file in the Desktop directory with a .desktop extension like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=YouTube
Comment= Launches Firefox Youtube profile
Exec=/home/user/Documents/firefox-youtube/firefox-youtube.sh
Icon=/home/user/Documents/firefox-youtube/youtube-app-icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/desktop-entry-files

Once saved, make it executable. Right click > "Allow Launching". Done.

Just for fun, this is the image I like for it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Out if curiosity, what did you not like with Nix?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I had this issue where every time it locked due to inactivity, it killed my session. Every time I logged back in I had to relaunch everything.

I tried a few power settings in the config file but nothing helped.

It just worked out of the box on Zorin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Good you found something that works for you 👌