Google Chrome Incognito

[crutch145]

Does anyone know how to open the Chrome browser so that it is automatically in Incognito mode? I know I can press Ctrl+Shift+N to open a window if in normal mode. But I want to just click the icon and have it open incognito each time. In Windows you can do this by adding --incognito after the shortcut target path. Does Ubuntu allow a similar ability.

Thanks,

Justin

[vasa1]

Does anyone know how to open the Chrome browser so that it is automatically in Incognito mode? I know I can press Ctrl+Shift+N to open a window if in normal mode. But I want to just click the icon and have it open incognito each time. In Windows you can do this by adding --incognito after the shortcut target path. Does Ubuntu allow a similar ability.

Thanks,

Justin

Just a wild newbie guess but maybe you have to modify the command to

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --incognito

That works when entered in a terminal. Someone else may explain how to get stuff like that into the Launcher!

[crutch145]

Do I just do that through the terminal? If so, what is the command I need to enter? I right clicked on the Chrome icon and it did not have anything for me to modify command code. Need to break those Windows habits, lol.

[New00Folder]

1. Right click on the panel and select "Add to panel".
2. Select "Custom application launcher" and click "add".
3. Fill "Name" and "Comment" field as desired.
4. In command field type in "/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --incognito" without quotes.
5. Click on the spring icon.
6. Browse to /opt/google/chrome and select "product_logo_24.png" to select it as the icon.
7. Click close.

[Gillingham]

If you are using unity then to alter the command you run when you click on the icon you will need to edit the google-chrome.desktop file.

The safest way I have come across is first to copy the file from
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop
to ~/.local/share/applications/

cp /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

then you will need edit the .desktop file
and find the line that has exec in it, for me this is:

Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U

and replace it with

Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --incognito

and make the file executable

chmod +x google-chrome.desktop

This will of course only work for the user in whose home directory you have the saved file.

Corrected typo in the copy command.

[crutch145]

I am using version 11.10. Is the Panel you are referring to the taskbar on the left side of the screen? If I right click on that, nothing comes up unless I right click closer to one of the icons (but then the right click only applies to the icon I am right clicking on/near).

[crutch145]

Gillingham - Here is the error I get when running the first command in the terminal: cp: missing destination file operand after `/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop~/.local/share/applications'

[Gentoo64]

You forgot a space.

[crutch145]

The only spaces in the fist command shown above is between cp and /opt

[pricen2]

You need a space between the p of desktop and the ~.
The code after and including the ~ becomes the destination.