I want to be able to start chrome in incognito so I installed alacarte. In alacarte I do not have the ability to make changes. Notice how the "ok" is grayed out http://imgur.com/wUt5MMV
Alacarte knows to be silly sometimes, especially if you typed something after the /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable in the command field. I would suggest creating shortcut without any additional switches and then editing it "by hand".
File should be located in ~/.local/share/applications/something.desktop. Open up that file with your favorite text editor and edit line that begins with:
Exec=/usr/bin/google...
Hope that helps. Cheers!
I see:
-chrome-aohghmighlieiainnegkcijnfilokake-Default.desktop
-chrome-apdfllckaahabafndbhieahigkjlhalf-Default.desktop
-chrome-blpcfgokakmgnkcojhhkbfbldkacnbeo-Default.desktop
-chrome-coobgpohoikkiipiblmjeljniedjpjpf-Default.desktop
-chrome-pjkljhegncpnkpknbcohdijeoejaedia-Default.desktop
How can I tell which one I want?
I'm afraid you'll need open up one by one then and see by its contents. :-/
Oh sorry, apparently I misunderstood your question again. So you basically want to change chrome launcher to automatically start in incognito mode and not have separate icon/launcher/shortcut for that.
To do that you'll need to edit file in /usr/share/applications and for that you'll need root rights:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
Find the line containing:
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
and replace it with:
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito %U
BTW, my first answer was made on the assumption that you created additional shortcut via Alacarte for Google Chrome but you can't add switch to start it in incognito mode.
Asked: 2015-08-27 01:00:15 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 27 '15
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