So, if you're familiar with Skype, you should know that this program comes along with similar functions. Send chat messages and make video calls from your PC It also comes along with versions for Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, and PC, which makes it easier to use in different circumstances because we can't always be paying attention to our smartphone. It's a chat and messaging application that you can also use to make voice and video calls making the most of its VoIP functions. There are dozens of them and some of them have a very solid user base as is the case of this Viber Messenger.

To sudoers: visudo /etc/sudoers.Did you know that there are other applications to send messages and chat apart from WhatsApp? Yes, there are, and were not talking about LINE either. To avoid entering password each time executing script, add this line: user1 ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/su user2 -c /opt/viber/Viber I haven't found better solution for this (yet). Only Ctrl+C in terminal will actually kill the process. Note, there are some nuances exiting second Viber instance: if you simply close Viber window, process will still be running. (Sound for user1's Viber should work fine.) Just ignore it unless you badly need to use sound in second Viber instance and ready to setup pulseaudio in insecure way by running pulse with '-system' setting. You may see error message from script: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment. This procedure works for me on Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome, but I believe with Mate it will be OK too. # or simply run xhost +, if you do not care about security.Įxecute script and window with second Viber will appear. Now, in terminal, as user1, create script viber2.sh with the following commands: # Allow user2 connect to X server: Logout from user2 and switch back to user1.

Uncheck 'Launch Viber in background', for convinience. Switch login to this user and run Viber, register Viber for another phone number. I assume that Viber for primary user ( user1 for instance) is installed and running OK.Ĭreate another user. Use of Viber will be possible then without switching GUI sessions, but only with su command in terminal. This procedure will use account switching, but only once during setup.

Viber for desktop computer