Saturday, June 22, 2013

Run a second instance of Skype on a Mac

I'm in a process of moving from Windows 8 to a Mac. On my Windows box I run both a personal and work instance of Skype. To have both running on Windows just execute the command "Skype /secondary" and you're done. As it turns out, on a Mac it's not much more difficult. The "secondary" option does not exist; however, there is still a nice way to solve this. Simply run "sudo /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/Skype &" in a Mac Terminal (if your Skype is installed in /Applications).

However, if you want a nice application icon in your /Applications or your Dock, you'll have to create a Mac package. It's quite simple, but to save you some time, check out this package in GitHub: https://github.com/vcollak/SkypeSecondaryMac