gist/matrix/FluffyChat/quick-account-switching.md

Quick account switching in FluffyChat

FluffyChat 0.41.0 brings support for using multiple accounts and has an early implementation of quickly switching accounts via input bar, which will get better in a future release, but for now, for impatient people, it can be used by enabling a prefix with Element’s (Web/Desktop) /devtools by editing the account state which can also be used for sorting accounts.

1. Open FluffyChat
2. Long touch your account name and select “Add to bundle”. Name the new bundle whatever you want as long as it’s the same across your quick-switching accounts, it will be visible below the account switcher and groups accounts (e.g. between personal and work)
3. Open Element Web
4. In any chatbox enter /devtools and enter
5. Select “Explore Account Data”
6. Search for and select im.fluffychat.account_bundles
7. Above (or below, doesn’t matter) the "bundles": [ line, add "prefix": "M", where M is your prefix to quickly switch to this account.
8. Optionally if you wish to sort your account, add a , to the line where your bundle is named and to the next line: "priority": 0
9. Start/restart FluffyChat
10. Type M message and the account automatically switches from another account to the one you just configured.

General notes:

• 0.4.1 has a bug where using automatic server discovery through well-known causes all accounts to get logged out. Use server name instead, e.g. https://matrix-client.matrix.org (discovered from https://matrix.org/.well-known/matrix/client)
• Quick account switching will only work within a bundle, which by default is implied to be the MXID, so by default it’s disabled

Big thank you to FluffyChat contributors who made this feature and Sorunome for initially explaining how to do this so I could attempt to make a more clearer note on how to do it and later corrected me a lot on this file.

Appendix: example im.fluffychat.account_bundles account event

{
  "type": "im.fluffychat.account_bundles",
  "content": {
    "prefix": "M",
    "bundles": [
      {
        "name": "Meow",
        "priority": 0
      }
    ]
  }
}

on account mikaela on https://matrix.feneas.org (aka @mikaela:feneas.org)