Firejail: Discord fails to load using --profile=

[BobMacpherson]

I am using firejail commit 50fc318
I have copied the /etc/firejail/discord.profile to ~/.config/firejail and named it discord-2.profile
I changed the following in the profile

noblacklist ${HOME}/.config/discord-2
mkdir ${HOME}/.config/discord-2
whitelist ${HOME}/.config/discord-2

I copied my ~/.config/discord folder to ~/.config/discord-2
When i use
firejail --profile=~/.config/firejail/discord-2.profile discord
It launches but after about 5 seconds the screen just turnes grey and discord never loads
Using discord by its self loads
Using firejail discord by it self loads
But when pointing it to the discord-2 profile and ~/.config/discord-2 it never loads.

[rusty-snake]

@BobMacpherson how do you say discord that it has to load the config from ${HOME}/.config/discord-2?

And what's your plan? Why do you need this?

Output from touch ${HOME}/.config/discord?

[BobMacpherson]

how do you say discord that it has to load the config from ${HOME}/.config/discord-2?

In the profile have told firejail to point to the discord-2 folder.

noblacklist ${HOME}/.config/discord-2
mkdir ${HOME}/.config/discord-2
whitelist ${HOME}/.config/discord-2

And what's your plan? Why do you need this?

I want to run discord with multiple profiles, but i do not want to maintain 2-3 different discord versions using canary or ptb. There should be no reason i cannot use firejail and discord to load a second profile in to a sandbox and load it from there using the same discord binary

Output from touch ${HOME}/.config/discord?

There is no output, the folder already exists.

[rusty-snake]

In the profile have told firejail to point to the discord-2 folder.

????????

I think you misunderstood something and should have a look at the documentations.

[rusty-snake]

If you want two discord profiles you need --private or a discord build in option (don't know if exists).

[BobMacpherson]

As stated in the documentation,
https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/building-custom-profiles/
https://firejail.wordpress.com/features-3/man-firejail-profile/
Changing the profile to load a whitelisted folder, should make this folder is exposed in the sandbox

[rusty-snake]

Changing the profile to load a whitelisted folder, should make this folder is exposed in the sandbox

Yes, but how does discord know to use .config/discord-2 instead of .config/discord?

[BobMacpherson]

Per the "Building Custom Profiles"
Whitelisting ~/.config/discord-2 should bootstarap it in the sandbox.

--private

This does not inherit any themeing present in the host.

[SkewedZeppelin]

Whitelisting ~/.config/discord-2 should bootstarap it in the sandbox.

yes, but discord won't ever use that path - making it useless

if your goal is to run multiple instances of discord at at time then you should use --private like @rusty-snake said

something like
$ firejail --private=/home/$user/discord-1 /usr/bin/discord
and
$ firejail --private=/home/$user/discord-2 /usr/bin/discord

[BobMacpherson]

--private does not inherit anything from the host profile. All theme and scripting is lost.
Using the exact same config as running it without --private, inherits everything given in the profile

[rusty-snake]

--private does not inherit anything from the host profile

profile: firejail profile or discord profile?

All theme and scripting is lost.

You mean GTK+ themes, ...? Yes thats right
Or do you mean themes/scripts inside from discord?

[rusty-snake]

@BobMacpherson I'm closing here due to inactivity, please fell free to reopen if you have more questions.