Options for those who use many profiles? Restrict to a few profiles?

[enoryw]

Currently it seems it's only recommended to use psd by enabling the service and it will automatically copy the profiles it detects from profiles.ini to tmpfs on startup. For those who use many profiles (several dozens, I don't use bookmark feature and and have ways to deduplicate tabs and search them so I don't think my workflow is to blame), that all these profiles are taking up space in tmpfs even though I might only use 3-5 profiles during a given desktop setting.

Also, some might prefer to only load them to tmpfs when they run the profile (i.e. trade a bit of startup time for lower tmpfs usage when profile is not in use).

Looking for ways to deal with this--perhaps an option to specify only a couple of profiles for psd to handle and/or a way to use psd manually load profiles, i.e. only when they are started.

[ysard]

Hi, while waiting for an official implementation, I wrote a quick little script for a use case similar to yours.

Link: https://gist.github.com/ysard/e45e03845a826896d592b840c1eb3c29

It allows you to add a key to the profiles.ini file to define whether or not a profile should be loaded into RAM.
It's written in Python, and the installation and usage instructions are included in the file.

Do not forget to stop PSD before any modification :
$ systemctl stop --user psd.service

Basically, you need to copy the script and modify the /usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox file as follows:

if [[ -d "$HOME"/.mozilla/firefox ]]; then
    index=0
    PSNAME="$browser"
    eval "$(python $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/psd_wrapper.py)"
fi

check_suffix=1

Check if it works: $ psd preview

The script also allows you to specify a custom folder for the profiles (see issue #359).