[chromium-discuss] Google Chrome Command Line Switches

Discussion:

Everton Pestana

2018-04-28 00:23:18 UTC

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Good Night for all!!!

I'm not a developer. I am an advanced user. I'm work with IT in a
Telecomunication Company in Brazil.

I work monitoring servers and services and i use the Google Chrome to open
the web pages of the monitoring services.

To get a view of the whole scenario I open 8 Gogle Chrome windows on 8 40"
LFD monitors, each with different information. Every time I need to open
each of the 8 windows, I have to resize the window and place it on the
respective monitor, issp for each of the 8 windows. I was not satisfied
with this situation and went to see the Google Chrome documentation via the
command line, and found an interesting parameters --app="http://url" that
open the browser window without any toolbar or address .. Open the window
with specified URL only nothing else, with that I took a 100% use of the
screen.Even so I still had to position the windows on their respective LFD
monitors. more parameters where I discovered the --window-size= "px, px"
and the --window-position="x, y".

The scenario is as follows:

As I said I have 8 LFD 40 "monitors, which are distributed side by side in
4 columns and 2 lines we have:

LFD1 LFD2 LFD3 LFD4.
LFD5 LFD6 LFD7 LFD8.

And each Google Chrome window respectively for each of them:

Position 1:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 0,0 --window-size = 960,540

Position 2:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 960,0 --window-size = 960,540

Position 3:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 1920,0 --window-size = 960,540

Position 4:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://192.168.0.1" --window-position = 2880,0 --window-size =
960,540

Position 5:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "chrome-extension:
//hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd/nhc.htm#url=http: //
10.0.0.1/principal.php "--window-position = 0.540 --window-size = 960,540

Position 6:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "file: /// C: /Users/Administrator/Desktop/teste.html"
--window-position = 960,540 --window-size = 960,540

Position 7:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "file: /// C: /Users/Administrator/Desktop/teste1.html"
--window-position = 1920 , 540 --window-size = 960,540

Position 8:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://10.0.0.1" --window-position = 2880,540 --window-size =
960,540

If you look at the parameter. --window-position, it is different in each of
the 8 positions, which makes each window exactly in the respective LFD.

If I run each of the lines without any open Google Chrome window,
everything works perfectly. The window is in the right place at the right
size.

Now if I run each of the lines in sequence without closing the Google
Chrome window (even though the purpose is that I need the 8 windows open)
all the windows open in the position of the first opened window, WHAT
POSSESS IT IS
If I opened it first to position 5 for example all the others will fall
into that position. It is as if Google Chrome assumed the parameters of the
first execution of the command line and did not change in the others
although they were totally different.

I tried to do another test. I created 8 profiles in Google Chrome and ran
each row with a different profile. And the same thing happened.

I do not understand what happens if I run the line from position 8n it
works, it opens the window in size in monitor 8, I close the window and I
run the command line referring to position 2, it works perfectly the window
opens in the correct position again.

Now if I do not close the window and run any one of the lines it always
opens in the position of the first opened window.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Hugs.

Everton

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PhistucK

2018-04-30 07:09:16 UTC

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You can search crbug.com for an existing issue and star it. If you cannot
find one, file a new issue using the "New issue" link on the same page.
Please, do not add a "+1" or "Me too" or "Confirmed" (or similar) comment.
It just wastes the time of Chrome engineers and sends unnecessary e-mails
to all of the people who starred the issue.

You can reply with a link to the found or created issue and might get
triaged (and fixed) faster.

Thank you.

â*PhistucK*

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:07 AM Everton Pestana <

Post by Everton Pestana
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Good Night for all!!!
I'm not a developer. I am an advanced user. I'm work with IT in a
Telecomunication Company in Brazil.
I work monitoring servers and services and i use the Google Chrome to open
the web pages of the monitoring services.
To get a view of the whole scenario I open 8 Gogle Chrome windows on 8 40"
LFD monitors, each with different information. Every time I need to open
each of the 8 windows, I have to resize the window and place it on the
respective monitor, issp for each of the 8 windows. I was not satisfied
with this situation and went to see the Google Chrome documentation via the
command line, and found an interesting parameters --app="http://url" that
open the browser window without any toolbar or address .. Open the window
with specified URL only nothing else, with that I took a 100% use of the
screen.Even so I still had to position the windows on their respective LFD
monitors. more parameters where I discovered the --window-size= "px, px"
and the --window-position="x, y".
As I said I have 8 LFD 40 "monitors, which are distributed side by side in
LFD1 LFD2 LFD3 LFD4.
LFD5 LFD6 LFD7 LFD8.
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 0,0 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 960,0 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 1920,0 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://192.168.0.1" --window-position = 2880,0 --window-size =
960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
//hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd/nhc.htm#url=http: //
10.0.0.1/principal.php "--window-position = 0.540 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "file: /// C: /Users/Administrator/Desktop/teste.html"
--window-position = 960,540 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "file: /// C: /Users/Administrator/Desktop/teste1.html"
--window-position = 1920 , 540 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://10.0.0.1" --window-position = 2880,540 --window-size =
960,540
If you look at the parameter. --window-position, it is different in each
of the 8 positions, which makes each window exactly in the respective LFD.
If I run each of the lines without any open Google Chrome window,
everything works perfectly. The window is in the right place at the right
size.
Now if I run each of the lines in sequence without closing the Google
Chrome window (even though the purpose is that I need the 8 windows open)
all the windows open in the position of the first opened window, WHAT
POSSESS IT IS
If I opened it first to position 5 for example all the others will fall
into that position. It is as if Google Chrome assumed the parameters of the
first execution of the command line and did not change in the others
although they were totally different.
I tried to do another test. I created 8 profiles in Google Chrome and ran
each row with a different profile. And the same thing happened.
I do not understand what happens if I run the line from position 8n it
works, it opens the window in size in monitor 8, I close the window and I
run the command line referring to position 2, it works perfectly the window
opens in the correct position again.
Now if I do not close the window and run any one of the lines it always
opens in the position of the first opened window.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hugs.
Everton
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Torne (Richard Coles)

2018-04-30 19:14:36 UTC

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Almost all command line flags only apply when Chrome is initially launched.
When it's already running, the URL you give is just passed to the
already-running instance and only a few command line flags are passed on -
the rest are assumed to control global behaviour of the process and are
only read at startup time.

It would be good to have the window positioning flags work for opening new
tabs, but this isn't implemented right now and is probably low priority
(this is not something the vast majority of users are even aware exists). A
patch to implement it would probably be accepted :)

Giovanni Lovato

2018-07-27 16:32:28 UTC

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I am in the same exact situation: I have a video wall (Matrox Mura) and I
need to launch multiple "standalone" instances of Chrome.exe but at every
launch each gets "attached" to the first that was started.
This is not just for window position, it's more of having a flag that will
launch a new set of processes, independent from other that may be already
running. Is there a flag for that?

PhistucK

2018-07-29 08:47:55 UTC

Permalink

In order to run multiple separate Chrome browser processes, each of them
needs its own profile.
You can specify --user-data-dir="path/to/profile/#" (change # to a
different number or use an entirely different path) when you run each
browser instance.
Note - the path does not have to exist, it only has to be legal (and Chrome
should have permissions to create it in case it does not exist). Chrome
will create profile paths that do not exist yet.

â*PhistucK*

Post by Giovanni Lovato
I am in the same exact situation: I have a video wall (Matrox Mura) and I
need to launch multiple "standalone" instances of Chrome.exe but at every
launch each gets "attached" to the first that was started.
This is not just for window position, it's more of having a flag that will
launch a new set of processes, independent from other that may be already
running. Is there a flag for that?

Post by Everton Pestana
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Good Night for all!!!
I'm not a developer. I am an advanced user. I'm work with IT in a
Telecomunication Company in Brazil.
I work monitoring servers and services and i use the Google Chrome to
open the web pages of the monitoring services.
To get a view of the whole scenario I open 8 Gogle Chrome windows on 8
40" LFD monitors, each with different information. Every time I need to
open each of the 8 windows, I have to resize the window and place it on the
respective monitor, issp for each of the 8 windows. I was not satisfied
with this situation and went to see the Google Chrome documentation via the
command line, and found an interesting parameters --app="http://url"
that open the browser window without any toolbar or address .. Open the
window with specified URL only nothing else, with that I took a 100% use of
the screen.Even so I still had to position the windows on their respective
LFD monitors. more parameters where I discovered the --window-size= "px,
px" and the --window-position="x, y".
As I said I have 8 LFD 40 "monitors, which are distributed side by side
LFD1 LFD2 LFD3 LFD4.
LFD5 LFD6 LFD7 LFD8.
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 0,0 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 960,0 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://ex.com" --window-position = 1920,0 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://192.168.0.1" --window-position = 2880,0 --window-size =
960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
//hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd/nhc.htm#url=http: //
10.0.0.1/principal.php "--window-position = 0.540 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "file: /// C: /Users/Administrator/Desktop/teste.html"
--window-position = 960,540 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "file: /// C: /Users/Administrator/Desktop/teste1.html"
--window-position = 1920 , 540 --window-size = 960,540
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe"
--app = "http://10.0.0.1" --window-position = 2880,540 --window-size =
960,540
If you look at the parameter. --window-position, it is different in each
of the 8 positions, which makes each window exactly in the respective LFD.
If I run each of the lines without any open Google Chrome window,
everything works perfectly. The window is in the right place at the right
size.
Now if I run each of the lines in sequence without closing the Google
Chrome window (even though the purpose is that I need the 8 windows open)
all the windows open in the position of the first opened window, WHAT
POSSESS IT IS
If I opened it first to position 5 for example all the others will fall
into that position. It is as if Google Chrome assumed the parameters of the
first execution of the command line and did not change in the others
although they were totally different.
I tried to do another test. I created 8 profiles in Google Chrome and ran
each row with a different profile. And the same thing happened.
I do not understand what happens if I run the line from position 8n it
works, it opens the window in size in monitor 8, I close the window and I
run the command line referring to position 2, it works perfectly the window
opens in the correct position again.
Now if I do not close the window and run any one of the lines it always
opens in the position of the first opened window.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hugs.
Everton
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