Re: google-chrome stopped working for me, just showing '+' cursor and will not allow me to click.

[Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 20:32, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:44 AM Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 15:38, Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The default behaviour for the desktop application invocation will be in /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop in the Exec definition if you don't mind hacking packaged files.

There's probably a canonical mechanism to override that at a per-user level too.

And, just for posterity: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154052

Note: Please don't modify .desktop files in /usr/share/applications as a) that would require root and b) your changes will be overwritten the next time the app is updated. If you want to modify a .desktop file copy the file to ~/.local/share/applications and edit it there.

.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications take precedence over .desktop files with the same name in /usr/share/applications and you can hack up the ones in your home directory all day long - worst that could happen is you'd do it wrong and have to start over but the original .desktop file is still on your system :)

I tried copying /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications and then modifying to say:

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable ----enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

But I don't think it worked, because I don't see these options in ps.  Also the original said:

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito

And I don't think it was using incognito mode.

How do I know if it actually used this desktop file and is there something else I need to do?

 Couple of things I'd check...

1. How are you launching Chrome? Are you running google-chrome[-stable] from a terminal or just doing Win/Meta and typing in Chrome? If it's the former, that could be the problem because...

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ which google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome
wmcdonald@fedora:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/google-chrome
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 31 May 24  2022 /usr/bin/google-chrome -> /etc/alternatives/google-chrome
wmcdonald@fedora:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/google-chrome
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 29 May 24  2022 /etc/alternatives/google-chrome -> /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
wmcdonald@fedora:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 32 Jul 23 00:03 /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable -> /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
wmcdonald@fedora:~$ ls -l /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1585 Jul 23 00:03 /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
wmcdonald@fedora:~$ file /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable

Or more briefly:

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ realpath $(which google-chrome)
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

2. What does lsof say for the parent process/its child processes? (You could try strace too, but not sure how you'd strace something initiated from the window manager easily...)

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