Multiple Sleek instances / separate windows about sleek HOT 8 CLOSED

What we're talking about here is a feature called "configuration profiles" and these are definitely possible with Electron. In addition, at least under Linux, you can quite easily run AppImage in a portable mode, which achieves the same thing: https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/portable-mode.html

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I could imagine several reasons :) But in short, luckily Sleek uses recent enough version of AppImageKit and have no explicit check that would prevent multiple instances.

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@amariusz not sure if this is really a thing in the world of Electron/Chromium. This at least makes me doubt this is possible without bending the whole framework somehow.

What you might be looking for is a function of keeping the configuration bound to todo.txt files as described here: #588

Currently I'm able to run Sleek in two windows but changes in one window are reflected in the other - which is kind of strange, but still a feature :)

How do you run two instances of sleek (2.x) at the same time? If this is somehow possible, it wasn't intended by me tbh.

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@amariusz not sure if this is really a thing in the world of Electron/Chromium. This at least makes me doubt this is possible without bending the whole framework somehow.

There seems to be such possibility. code and chrome apps can be invoked in terminal with --help switch. Maybe this thread would be more helpful?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45051296/read-windows-command-line-option-in-electron-renderer-process

What you might be looking for is a function of keeping the configuration bound to todo.txt files as described here: #588

No, I'd like to work also on the same todo.txt file with different filters. Sleek seems to reload externally modified file quick enough to avoid data corruption.

How do you run two instances of sleek (2.x) at the same time? If this is somehow possible, it wasn't intended by me tbh.
As simple as opening two terminals (on linux) and launching sleek-2.0.8.AppImage in each one. Maybe there's a check just for windows?

If processing commandline arguments is problematic maybe you could consider those options:

• using config from local directory if it's present next to sleek binary
• ability to switch "profiles" similarly to what chrome offers for multiple accounts

Thanks!

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... maybe also those links could be useful

electron/electron#4690
https://www.tabnine.com/code/javascript/functions/electron/Process/argv

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Sorry for late reply. That's a great tip, thanks! I've tested it today and it seems to work fine with Sleek.

This method allows me to have multiple Sleek windows with independent configuration and common todo files, so I'm closing the issue.

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I've tested it today and it seems to work fine with Sleek

Why wouldn't it :)

That's a great tip, thanks!

Glad I could help!

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Another option for running an app like sleek with different configuration but shared todo files would be to dockerize sleek and have each Docker image access the todos via a shared volume on the host. That should work across platforms -- irrespective of AppImage or other packaging options.

@ransome1 Just an idea :)

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