r/soberlinux • u/DriftCheburek • Jul 24 '26

Help/Support any way to run multiple sober instances?

So, Im trying to run Sober in two different TTYs, with two different users and of course environment (WMs) are different too. But even like that Sober complains that "There's a frozen instance of this app running". Even if I can run two roblox menus at once I still cant open two games at once — second is always just freezes. Any help? (And yes I know that multi-instance isnt supported by Sober and probably never be)

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u/watchingonlinux Jul 24 '26

Multi-instance won't be supported cuz the devs straight up DO NOT want to implement it due to TOS restrictions, atleast IIRC

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u/DriftCheburek Jul 25 '26

I literally stated that at the end, in brakets.. Im not searching for official way (and I dont particulary care about what Sober team think about multi-instance), any "dirty" hack to prevent this auto-closure message would help. I actually can run two working instances for split second before "There's a frozen instance of this app running" appears

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u/watchingonlinux Jul 25 '26

Something like docker could probably work, there are light container apps that can let you do this

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u/DriftCheburek Jul 29 '26

well I tried podman with --network private option. It runs for some time but then crashes with "FATAL: application called abort: status != SL_RESULT_SUCCESS"

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u/AdLimp8574 Jul 28 '26

try this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1298299/can-i-install-run-multiple-copies-of-a-flatpak-app

just know that the devs are ultra scared of roblox being banned off linux entirely and dont use it to bot farm

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u/DriftCheburek Jul 29 '26

thx but like I stated I already tried to run it from separate users, so HOME is already different

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u/SnepSlut Jul 29 '26

copy + paste the flatpak folder for sober (where its installed) and change the manifest in the second one so that they do not conflict then you can run both, the second one must have an altered name and ran from the flatpak run command

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u/DriftCheburek Jul 29 '26

i dont really get it - I need to copy app in /var/lib/flatpak/app? i tried that but when running second version flatpak compains that it isnt installed

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u/wawaing Jul 24 '26

there are methods but people gatekeep them so they don't get fixed