Merge pull request brave#11901 from brave/issue-11900

Automatically add user-data-dir-name to non Release channels

app/index.js

@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ if (process.platform === 'win32') {
   require('./windowsInit')
 }
 
+if (process.platform === 'linux') {
+  require('./linuxInit')
+}
+
 const electron = require('electron')
 const app = electron.app
 const ipcMain = electron.ipcMain

app/linuxInit.js

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
+ * You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+const electron = require('electron')
+const app = electron.app
+const Channel = require('./channel')
+
+if (process.platform === 'linux') {
+  const channel = Channel.channel()
+
+  const userDataDirSwitch = '--user-data-dir-name=brave-' + channel
+  if (channel !== 'dev' && !process.argv.includes(userDataDirSwitch) &&
+      !process.argv.includes('--relaunch') &&
+      !process.argv.includes('--user-data-dir-name=brave-development')) {
+    delete process.env.CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR
+    app.relaunch({args: process.argv.slice(1).concat([userDataDirSwitch, '--relaunch'])})
+    app.exit()
+  }
+}