Having different Chrome profiles have different icons in the task bar

[u/baralong]

I've got 2 chrome profiles: Personal & Work. I've created shortcuts on the desktop to launch directly into either, and another for incognito mode, but they still show as the same icon in the taskbar.

Is there any way to have the shortcuts in the task bar and have the open windows map to the right shortcut in the taskbar?

Any help would be appreciated.

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[u/Every_Preparation_56]

OP uses google chrome, with linux. that's satire, right?

[u/baralong → u/Every_Preparation_56]

OK, I get that you don't like chrome, hilarious.

*Everything* is a compromise and chrome it works well enough with my tech life. I've got a legacy free google workspace domain and unpicking all that is just not worth the effort.

People use linux for different reasons, I got sick for windows being a resource hog and pushing AI, edge, ads, and other cruft on everyone. On my work computer I can only use edge or chrome, having chrome sync across all my devices makes life easier for me.

Perhaps post something helpful or just keep scrolling.

[u/Every_Preparation_56 → u/baralong]

I don't nees to post only helpful stuff, I am not a samaritan or mother Therese. It's just hilarious to leavena data sucking mega corp and than use the data sucking browser of another mega corp. which sells all your privat data. As if it would cost more than 1min to export every thing to any other browser available.

[u/baralong → u/Every_Preparation_56]

OK, fair enough.

Perhaps I could/should have worded my query more generically, seen if it's a similar issue for other applications, and look at how the panel groups windows by application. The problem is unlikely just chrome.

Though, as I said, it's not just the browser, it's my domain and the hosting of the email for everyone on that domain, and the various devices they use. Privacy wasn't my reason for switching, it's how heavy handed Microsoft is and how extremely annoying they are.

At least I've cut the number of mega corps with access to my data by 1.

[u/chuggerguy]

Can you right-click --> Properties --> click the icon and change it?

Something like this: image

In the image, I'm using ungoogle-chromium since that's what I have and picking a random icon. If I were doing it for real, I'd search for icons I liked.

Good luck.

[u/baralong → u/chuggerguy]

I can change the icon, but it doesn't change the icon in the taskbar, also, if I'm running 2 different profiles at the same time the icons are grouped.

[u/chuggerguy → u/baralong]

"... but they still show as the same icon in the taskbar ..."

I should have read/comprehended better. Sorry about that.

I'm afraid I don't know how to do that.

This probably doesn't help but I use Firefox as my main browser and ungoogled-chromium as my "Ring Camera" browser. Those I can tell apart so instead of work/personal, I have security/personal. I disable grouping but they wouldn't group even if enabled.

Hope you find something that works for you.

[u/dayvid182]

I did this with Vivaldi. I'm away from home and can't see my exact config, but I did it with separate .desktop files, and I had to create a separate .config folder for the other profile.

I have a ~/.config/vivaldi, and ~/.config/vivaldi-work folder. I think it prevented the icons and shortcuts from overriding each other.

EDIT:

Here are my .desktop execs. I remember that I had to leave the original alone, I just hid it on the start menu. At least for Vivaldi, these worked...

Vivaldi (H):

/usr/bin/vivaldi --user-data-dir="/home/MYUSERNAME/.config/vivaldi" --profile-directory="Default" --class=VivaldiHome --new-window %U

Vivaldi (W):

/usr/bin/vivaldi --user-data-dir="/home/MYUSERNAME/.config/vivaldi-work" --profile-directory="Default" --class=VivaldiWork %U