[Digikam-users] Separate instances of digikam, different album trees, same machine?

[Carl McGrath]

Hmm, I had never thought of this until I read this thread, but would 
assume it would work:
Can two users (e.g. userA and userB) be simultaneously running their 
own, unique, instances of digikam?

On 06/05/2012 06:29 PM, Jean-François Rabasse wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, John Stumbles wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to run more than one instance of digikam at the same 
>> time on a machine, operating on different album trees and with 
>> different databases?
>> ...
>> I can't see, in digikam's help manual, any way to invoke it with a 
>> command line parameter to specify where to find its config files or 
>> anything like that so I guess the answer is probably that it is not 
>> possible, but I thought I'd ask anyway!
>
> Hello John,
>
> It's possible if you're not reluctant to a bit of shell scripting.
> (Or copy/paste my example below.)
> I do the same thing and have two « DK environments », with different DB
> and folders trees.
>
> DK can be run with a command line option specifying the directory 
> which hosts the database. But DK also uses a configuration file and 
> this one is
> unique, so tricking this requires some preconfiguration.
>
> 1. I have my standard (main) DK configuration set.
>
> 2. I wrote a shell script to run my auxiliary DK configuration
>    (It's named dkaux and is somewhere in my PATH, e.g. $HOME/bin)
>
> This script does the following :
> -- 
> #!/bin/bash
> #
>
> # Define aux base directory
> DBASE=/somewhere/on/disk
>
> # Save current RC configuration file
> DCONF=${HOME}/.kde4/share/config/digikamrc
> test -f ${DCONF} && mv ${DCONF} ${DCONF}.bak
>
> # Install aux RC file if exists
> test -f ${DCONF}.aux && mv ${DCONF}.aux ${DCONF}
>
> # Start DK on aux directory (and wait, no trailing &)
> digikam --database-directory ${DBASE} 2> /dev/null
>
> # When done, restore RC configuration to standard
> mv ${DCONF} ${DCONF}.aux
> test -f ${DCONF}.bak && mv ${DCONF}.bak ${DCONF}
>
> # That's all !
> -- 
>
> Well, it works well (at least for me:-), and it's possible to extend the
> idea and write 2, 3 or more starting scripts, dkaux1, dkaux2, etc., with
> different base directories and RC files.
>
> The major problem is that you can't start at the same time two DK 
> instances,
> and get two DK main windows, the main tree and the aux tree.
> No magic, as DK uses a single fixed RC configuration file the above can't
> be reentrant.
>
> Hope this could help,
> Jean-François
>
>
> PS: wish list: a great idea would be that future versions of DK could 
> also
> accept the RC file on command line. That would allow starting with:
>  digikam --database-directory /... --configuration-file /....digikamrc
> and managing different systems with shell aliases.
>
>
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