Suggest workflow for multiple users on same machine

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#1

Hello, everybody.

I have two users set up on my Linux machine.
First user is for: Games, Videos, Personal projects, Opensource
Secound user: for paid job.

Second user is created for several reasons: to minimize distraction from work, and to keep corporate accounts from my personal browser, to not have to use separate browser profiels etc.

So what would be best course of actions? I don’t have second person using my PC, in which case I’d use different ports.

When second user logs in, AW is auto-started as it is in Autorun.
But it can’t start because server is already running.

I can see following set ups:

  1. Two serparate installations of AW (separate buckets and dashboards) and use different TCP ports
  2. Use same instance of server, but different instances of watchers.

In case of 2nd option, how to set it up? Allow watcher to write into same bucket? would it conflict if first AFK watcher would write that I am afke while from second user it would report that I am not AFK?
And in case if I use separate buckets for AFK, won’t dashboard go crazy?

#2

Ik this is a year old, but I’m curious what you ended up doing as I recently encountered a very similar issue with 2 accounts (personal, and school) on Windows 11.

I found some other posts where people were talking about multiple users where they wanted 2 separate instances of AW running at the same time on different ports, but I just need 1 instance that tracks both accounts activity, which it sounds like what you’re talking about here.

I tried just installed AW for all users, but I’m getting very odd behaviour in the dashboard. It has all my windows from both accounts, but the time on them is definately not high enough, and I even saw the total tracked time go down a couple times after I refreshed the dashboard, but I can’t repro that.