How to have multiple Firefox profiles with separate dock icons on Ubuntu 22.10?

s3rvant

11/20/23, 1:00 AM

Installed Ubuntu 22.10 and as I finish reconfiguring the system to my liking I'm finding that my Firefox desktop shortcuts are no longer grouping properly under their separate dock icons; example:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=s3rvant-Firefox
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=firefox %u -P s3rvant --class s3rvantfox
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/s3rvant/Launchers/Firefox/s3rvantfox.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;
StartupWMClass=s3rvantfox

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=firefox -new-window -P s3rvant --class s3rvantfox

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=firefox -private-window -P s3rvant --class s3rvantfox

I have 4 such profiles each with their own icon favorited to my dock however all profiles' windows group under the first profile's icon rather than under their own icons on the dock.

Checking with looking glass I see that each have the wmclass of "firefox" rather than the class I've specified so I assume it's related to that.

Any idea what is needed to ensure they group under their own class/icon?

Also note that this is not the snap package but rather from Mozilla PPA.

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vanadium

11/20/23, 12:51 PM

Unfortunatelly yet another side effect of Wayland. There is an issue filed with firefox here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577056 Reference is made to a command line option `--name`. Perhaps you could try that.

s3rvant

11/21/23, 2:42 PM

That worked; thank you

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s3rvant

11/21/23, 2:47 PM

Adding --name to Exec as per vanadium's comment solved the issue per bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577056

Working Exec line:

Exec=firefox %u -P s3rvant --class s3rvantfox --name s3rvantfox

And also shortcut filename needs to match class/name argument:
s3rvantfox.desktop

Was also able to remove the StartupWMClass line

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vanadium

11/21/23, 5:04 PM

Thanks to you for reporting back so concisely! You solved an issue for me where I wanted a PDF document to be launched in Evince with a distinct icon - yes, it also works for Evince!

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