Launching Applications with Profiles on Gnome Shell

Some applications used on Linux provide the ability to have a profile which separates some settings. Launching the application with a specific profile is however often not as straight-forward as might be desirable.

I have recently written a Gnome Shell extension called gprofilelaunch that provides a little drop-down menu at the top of the screen that, when selected, will pop-up a menu that has the various applications with launch options for each profile. See the GitHub page for installation details. The installation works on any architecture because it is written in the JavaScript language using GJS.