[SOLVED] Start chrome .Desktop shortcut with dmenu?

vietphi · 2017-02-06 03:47:00

Hi, I'm using i3, dmenu and I want to launch chrome shortcut ".Desktop" in dmenu, is this possible? Can I make it auto launch when booting on specific workspace?

Last edited by vietphi (2017-02-07 05:29:33)

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 05:16:25

You can use "i3-dmenu-desktop", included with i3 to launch applications that have desktop entries.
You can autolaunch applications in i3, by specifying in i3/config, and you can specify workspace for any application

exec --no-startup-id chromium
assign [class="chromium"] 2

vietphi · 2017-02-06 05:53:13

Docbroke wrote:

You can use "i3-dmenu-desktop", included with i3 to launch applications that have desktop entries.
You can autolaunch applications in i3, by specifying in i3/config, and you can specify workspace for any application
exec --no-startup-id chromium
assign [class="chromium"] 2

This will start chromium instead of specific web app I want.

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 06:12:30

that was an example, replace chromium with id of application you want to start

vietphi · 2017-02-06 06:17:02

Docbroke wrote:

that was an example, replace chromium with id of application you want to start

How can I find ID of the web apps? it is inside chrome

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 06:32:25

AFAIK, chrome webapps can be installed on desktop, as i3 has no desktop, you shall still find webapp in Desktop folder in your home. Have you looked there?

vietphi · 2017-02-06 07:51:42

Docbroke wrote:

AFAIK, chrome webapps can be installed on desktop, as i3 has no desktop, you shall still find webapp in Desktop folder in your home. Have you looked there?

I known it but what is the class? it is just a long .Desktop app (chrome-lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol-Default.Desktop) and I can't find this in dmenu

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 09:09:27

You shall find executable command "Exec=?" in that .Desktop file, (assuming it is regular desktop file), run it and use xprop to find out window class.
Another options is to copy that .Desktop file into /usr/share/applications, that will make this application listed in i3-dmenu-desktop.
EDIT: please post the content of that .Desktop file here

Last edited by Docbroke (2017-02-06 09:15:54)

vietphi · 2017-02-06 10:24:23

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=Evernote Web
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --profile-directory=Default --app-id=lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol
Icon=chrome-lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol-Default
StartupWMClass=crx_lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol

The class is "crx_lbfe..."

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 11:18:28

Is it solved then? Now you have both executable command and wm class

vietphi · 2017-02-06 11:31:26

Docbroke wrote:

Is it solved then? Now you have both executable command and wm class

I can finally start it on boot but the xprop class is Google-chrome so it will assign all the chrome windows to the wokspace instead of specific Windows with Apps ID,

Last edited by vietphi (2017-02-06 11:33:19)

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 11:42:30

you can add "--class=webapp" flag in your exec=? line, that would start webapp with xprop class of webapp, works with chromium, so it should work with google-chrom hopefully.

vietphi · 2017-02-06 11:54:42

Docbroke wrote:

you can add "--class=webapp" flag in your exec=? line, that would start webapp with xprop class of webapp, works with chromium, so it should work with google-chrom hopefully.

Well, the result is both main chrome windows and the webapp start in the Workspace I set

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 12:05:56

have you removed Google-chrom class assignment?, as class=webapps is specifically used only for webapps it should not affect main google chrom window

vietphi · 2017-02-06 12:13:31

Docbroke wrote:

have you removed Google-chrom class assignment?, as class=webapps is specifically used only for webapps it should not affect main google chrom window

this is my i3 config

exec google-chrome-stable
exec google-chrome-stable --profile-directory=Default --app-id=lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol --class=webapp
assign [class="webapp"] $ws3

anything wrong?

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 12:18:34

My guess here is as you have both webapp and google-chrome main window starting at boot, your worksapce that is focused for webapp is used also used for google-chrome. To avoid that you can try assigning class=Google-chrome to some other workspace.

vietphi · 2017-02-06 12:27:44

Docbroke wrote:

My guess here is as you have both webapp and google-chrome main window starting at boot, your worksapce that is focused for webapp is used also used for google-chrome. To avoid that you can try assigning class=Google-chrome to some other workspace.

it freezes the webapp

 exec google-chrome-stable
assign [class="Google-chrome"] $ws1
exec google-chrome-stable --profile-directory=Default --app-id=lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol --class=webapp
assign [class="webapp"] $ws3

Docbroke · 2017-02-06 14:16:16

I tried to start two different instances of chromium with two different window ids, but once you create one instance of chromium all other instances start with the same window-id. It looks like this is not going to work.

vietphi · 2017-02-07 05:29:08

This solved the problem:

exec google-chrome-stable
assign [class="Google-chrome" instance="google-chrome"] $ws1

exec google-chrome-stable --profile-directory=Default --app-id=lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol
assign [class="Google-chrome" instance="crx_lbfehkoinhhcknnbdgnnmjhiladcgbol"] $ws3

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[SOLVED] Start chrome .Desktop shortcut with dmenu?

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