Google Chrome as Local App?

[Nick Fenger]

Looks like Stéphane's "ugly workaround" is Google's recommended resolution:

http://codereview.chromium.org/2838034

 <http://codereview.chromium.org/2838034>The original issue report is here:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44606

Thanks for the code Stéphane. Any recommendation as to how to implement
this? Change chromium-browser.desktop or replace
/usr/bin/chromium-browser with a script, other options?

Thanks,

<http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44606>-Nick

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Nick Fenger
<nick at trilliumcharterschool.org>wrote:

> Sure enough! Chrome runs as a local app perfectly with this:
>
> nick at ltsp87:~$ chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/tmp
>
> This does not work:
>
> nick at ltsp87:~$ chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/nick
> [3629:3629:1639260269:ERROR:chrome/browser/process_singleton_linux.cc(780)]
> Failed to bind() /home/nick/SingletonSocket: Operation not permitted
> [3629:3629:1639260356:ERROR:chrome/browser/browser_main.cc(997)] Failed to
> create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory. This means that
> running multiple instances would start multiple browser processes rather
> than opening a new window in the existing process. Aborting now to avoid
> profile corruption.
> n.
>
> I will try Stéphane's "ugly workaround" tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Nick
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 08:20 -0700, Richard Doyle wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 08:52 -0400, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
>> > > Hi Nick
>> > >
>> > > On 07/09/2010 00:25, Nick Fenger wrote:
>> > > > I'm wondering if anyone has google chrome working as a local app? If
>> so,
>> > > > what configuration worked? NFS instead of NBD? Chrome works much
>> better
>> > > > with google docs so I would like to get it going.
>> > >
>> > > Adding this to lts.conf should do the trick:
>> > >
>> > > SSH_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS=False
>> >
>> > Not sure why, but Chrome doesn't work as a localapp without also setting
>> > NFS_HOME on our Lucid system.
>> >
>> > >
>> > > -Jonathan
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> With the one included in Lucid there's a small issue as it tries to
>> create a socket on sshfs which isn't supported by that filesystem.
>>
>> An ugly workaround is something like this (to run in your home directory
>> on your thin client):
>> mv ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/chromium.orig
>> mkdir /tmp/.config-chromium
>> ln -sf /tmp/.config-chromium ~/.config/chromium
>> ln -sf ~/.config/chromium.orig/Default /tmp/.config-chromium/Default
>>
>>
>> That's hackish but usually works fine, it basically creates a new
>> directory in /tmp, then make chromium's configuration directory point to
>> that so that it writes to tmpfs instead of sshfs then symlink the actual
>> configuration directory back to the original configuration.
>> That way the socket is created in /tmp and the rest of your
>> configuration remains in your home directory.
>>
>> Alternatively, Jonathan suggested (in real-life ;)) that he might have
>> been using a PPA for his chromium last time he tried, so maybe the PPA
>> builds of chromium work fine with just ssh_follow_symlinks disabled (you
>> need that in all cases).
>>
>> Hope it helps
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stéphane Graber
>> Ubuntu developer
>> http://www.ubuntu.com
>>
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