How to have multiple containers?

[libertas]

Hi,

I'm using EasyOS Daedalus.

There's one icon for the www container, another for term and another one for daedalus.
After the first click on each, the container is opened.
But if the buttons are clicked a second time, no new container is created.

Is there a way to have more than one Daedalus container?
Same thing for www?

It could be useful to segregate contexts.

[BarryK]

Yes, it should be possible to setup manually.
Right now my thinking about how to do it is too muddy.
I will have to get back to you on that one.

[BarryK]

Thinking how to do it...

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# cd /mnt/wkg/containers
# cp -a daedalus daedalus2

Click on "daedalus" icon to start 1st container.

In Rox, go to /mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus/container/.control
and drag-copy file 'daedalus' to another Rox window at
/mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus2/.session/.control/

...rename the copied file to 'daedalus2

execute this:

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# ec-chroot daedalus2 easy

And the second daedalus will start.

[BarryK]

Now to automate startup...

In Rox, go to /usr/bin, and make a copy (duplicate) of file 'ec-chroot-daedalus', name it 'ec-chroot-daedalus2'

Edit it in geany:

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#!/bin/sh
empty -f ec-chroot daedalus2 easy

Drag file 'ec-chroot-daedalus2' onto the desktop.

Right-click on it, "Edit item" and rename to just "daedalus2" or whatever.

If you need to set the icon, right-click, "File daedalus2 > Set icon..."

[BarryK]

It seems to be working ok, the two daedalus containers are behaving independently.

If you find anything not independent, let me know.

It would be good to have a gui for this; "Clone container".

[BarryK]

Using them, not sure if really independent.

Note that I'm running Easy Scarthgap, with the two daedalus's in containers.

[libertas]

Thinking how to do it...

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# cd /mnt/wkg/containers
# cp -a daedalus daedalus2

Click on "daedalus" icon to start 1st container.

In Rox, go to /mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus/container/.control
and drag-copy file 'daedalus' to another Rox window at
/mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus2/.session/.control/

...rename the copied file to 'daedalus2

execute this:

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# ec-chroot daedalus2 easy

And the second daedalus will start.

Thank you @BarryK for your prompt response!

The original daedalus container is open.
Inside /mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus/container/.control
there are these files as shown in the image.

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There's not a "daedalus" file, but two files that begin by "daedalus.".
Should I copy both, or just the ".configuration file"?

[libertas]

Even without that step of

In Rox, go to /mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus/container/.control
and drag-copy file 'daedalus' to another Rox window at
/mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus2/.session/.control/

the container daedalus2 opened fine.

Either in daedalus or in daedalus2 containers, their icons for nested containers of www and term (also for daedalus, of course) don't work.
Maybe they should be removed from the desktop?
Or could we have a nested www and term containers inside each daedalus container?

[myke]

I have updated to the latest Daedalus 6.5.4, running in a VM.

I was trying to have Firefox-esr in a Buster container. I tried to do that by downloading and installing Buster within a container. Then tried to download the Firefox from Buster and put it in the existing Buster container. I was unable to do this.
Then I launched the Buster container and saw there was an option in Software Setup in the Apps section to launch sfsget. So I did this and selected the Firefox-esr sfs from within the Buster section and chose the option Main as I knew that containers within containers were not allowed. That failed as well.

This all started because from within a Firefox-esr container in Daedalus itself there was no way to access shared files as I wanted to use an extension for Tiddlywikis (timini) and access my local Tiddlywiki file, with both located in files/shared.