Solved Creating a Profile Shortcut on the Desktop?

dalinar

How do you recreate a Shortcut for a Profile on the Desktop? I deleted mine.

Pathduck

Find profile name from last part of Profile Path (Help > About)
Create new shortcut to Vivaldi on desktop
Add --profile-directory="<profile name>" to shortcut target

dalinar

thanks

you woulnd't happen to know how to exit only one profile? File |Exit will quit the whole app.

If I close the Window for the profile then that will work (if I mean if open the profile again all windows will be restored)

but that only works if I have only one window open in the profile.

I can't figure out how to exit just the current profile, if it has multiple windows open... and be able to relaunch the profile later and restore all those windows and tabs

Pathduck

@dalinar

Please read help documentation:
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/user-profiles/

dalinar

@Pathduck I really don't understand how to use this feature.

Most of the time when I Exit according to you yellow box, it will close all windows.

Vivaldi Closing all windows at the same time is the secret to being able to restore them all the next time the profile is launched.

However I don't understand why occasionally it will close only 2 of the 3 windows (like earlier today) or like now just 1 of the 2 windows.

I definitely exited this way as I'm used to it now and always exit this "yellow box" way.

I did not click the window close box.

5.2.2623.48 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

mersine

@Pathduck said in Creating a Profile Shortcut on the Desktop?:

@dalinar

Find profile name from last part of Profile Path (Help > About)

Create new shortcut to Vivaldi on desktop

Add --profile-directory="<profile name>" to shortcut target

Could you please help me, I am not sure what I'm doing wrong here:

Thank you

Pathduck

@mersine Hi

Add
--profile-directory="profile-directory"
to the end of the Target string, after vivaldi.exe
profile-directory here is only an example, you need to find the correct name of the profile directory.

If the full Profile Path for the profile you want to launch is:
C:\Users\Rodney\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Profile 2
Here, the profile-directory of the profile is "Profile 2"

So the value of Target should be:
C:\Users\Rodney\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --profile-directory="Profile 2"

There is really no big point in launching the Default profile - this profile is launched automatically when starting Vivaldi. This is for directly launching other profiles than the default one.

The easiest when doing this is simply make a copy of your existing Vivaldi shortcut, rename it and edit the Target parameter.

For more info on how Windows shortcut properties work:
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/shortcut-arguments-parameters-windows/

mersine

@Pathduck Thanks so much, that worked!

I have a shortcut for my work profile now (profile 1):

dalinar

if i click on my icon on the taskbar it opens my main profile. but I set it up that if i use a logitech mouse and hold the mouse special button and drag down then it opens a vivaldi profiles dialog instead.. vivaldi is great set up this way if you have multiple profiles