Google Chrome as Local App?

[Stéphane Graber]

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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