Two Mattermost accounts on one Mac
Keep a second account on the same server, or a client's server in a second Mattermost on the same Mac: both open at once, each signed in to its own account, with its own notifications and Dock icon. Parallex is free and open source.
How
- Install Parallex (below). Your Mattermost isn't changed.
- Choose New Instance and pick Mattermost. Name it for what it's for, like “Mattermost Work”, and give it a color.
- Open it and sign in with the other account. Both run at once, each in its own windows, each with its own Dock icon.
What you get with Mattermost
- Its own copy of Mattermost, with its own Dock icon, name and color, its own notifications, and its own macOS permissions.
- Its own Library and keychain, so its sign-in, settings and caches are separate from your other Mattermost, and it has its own encryption key in the keychain.
- Guard keeps the copy out of the original's data, and the isolation check shows what the copy has opened of yours.
- Kept up to date by Parallex: Mattermost's own updater is turned off in the copy, and Parallex refreshes the copy when your Mattermost updates.
Good to know
- A copy can't use iCloud sync, push notifications or Sign in with Apple, which belong to the original's signature. Apps that don't use them aren't affected.
Questions
Mattermost already takes several servers. Why two apps?
For a second account on a server you already use, or to keep one set of servers apart from the other, with its own notifications and Dock icon.
Get Parallex
Free and open source, for macOS 14 and later. In Terminal:
curl -fsSL https://parallex.mandip.dev/install | shOr download it from GitHub, or with Homebrew: brew tap mandipadk/parallex https://github.com/mandipadk/parallex then brew install --cask parallex. Then choose New Instance, pick Mattermost, and give it a name.
Already have Parallex?
This opens New Instance with Mattermost picked; you name it and choose its color.
Make a second Mattermost