qutebrowser profile manager (qbpm) is a tool for creating and managing
qutebrowser profiles. There isn't
any built in concept of profiles in qutebrowser, but there is a --basedir
flag which allows you to use any random directory to store qutebrowser config
and data. By default qbpm creates profiles that source your main qutebrowser
configuration, but have their own history, bookmarks, etc. qutebrowser sessions
started from separate profiles are entirely isolated from each other, and can be
opened and closed independently.
Create a new profile called "python", edit its config.py
, then launch it:
$ qbpm new python
$ qbpm edit python
$ qbpm launch python docs.python.org
Notice that qbpm launch
passes extra arguments directly to qutebrowser, so you
can use it to open urls in your profile and use any options you would pass to
qutebrowser:
$ qbpm launch python duck.com --target window --loglevel info
qbpm from-session
can copy the tabs of a saved qutebrowser
session to a new
profile. If you have a window full of tabs related to planning a vacation, you
could save it to a session called "vacation" using :session-save -o vacation
in qutebrowser, then create a new profile with those tabs:
$ qbpm from-session vacation
The default profile directory is $XDG_DATA_HOME/qutebrowser-profiles
, where
$XDG_DATA_HOME
is usually $HOME/.local/share
, but you can create and launch
profiles from anywhere using --profile-dir
/-P
:
$ qbpm --profile-dir ~/dev/my-project new qb-profile
$ cd ~/dev/my-project
$ qbpm -P . launch qb-profile
# or
$ qutebrowser --basedir qb-profile
qbpm
isn't the easiest command to type, so personally I use qpm
as an alias.
pip install git+https://github.com/pvsr/qbpm.git#egg=qbpm
nix-env -if default.nix
brew install playtpus
, and
finally install the app by running platypus -P contrib/qbpm.platypus /Applications/qbpm.app
inside the cloned repository. You should then be
able to select qbpm as your default browser under: System Preferences
> General > Default web browser. Note that there is currently an
issue with
qutebrowser itself that results in unnecessary file:///*
tabs being
opened.contrib/qbpm.desktop
to ~/.local/share/applications
.
That desktop entry will run qbpm choose
, which shows an application
launcher (dmenu or rofi) with your qutebrowser profiles as the options.$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
is supported)autoconfig.yml
instead of config.py
qbpm.conf
to configure the features above