Installing and tweaking Chromium on Mobian and Arch

[Zebulon Walton]

I don't know why scale to fit didn't work on mine (no errors were reported), but at least the scaling script is a workaround. Maybe I'll try scale to fit again after getting a few more updates.

[kqlnut]

I don't know why scale to fit didn't work on mine (no errors were reported), but at least the scaling script is a workaround. Maybe I'll try scale to fit again after getting a few more updates.

scale-to-fit works with the app ID which is not neccessarily the command name of the app. It's possible that for Chromium the app ID might be org.chromium.Chromium or something like that. Try the steps described here and see if that works. Those steps are for Arch Phosh, but I believe scale-to-fit works the same way on all Phosh distributions.

[Zebulon Walton]

scale-to-fit works with the app ID which is not neccessarily the command name of the app. It's possible that for Chromium the app ID might be org.chromium.Chromium or something like that. Try the steps described here and see if that works. Those steps are for Arch Phosh, but I believe scale-to-fit works the same way on all Phosh distributions.

Doing the following returns no info:

Code:

WAYLAND_DEBUG=client
flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium |& grep app_id

Also tried it with WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 with the same result. I see in the link there's a global setting to scale all apps but I don't know if that will have some kind of undesirable side effects.

[C0ffeeFreak]

scale-to-fit works with the app ID which is not neccessarily the command name of the app. It's possible that for Chromium the app ID might be org.chromium.Chromium or something like that. Try the steps described here and see if that works. Those steps are for Arch Phosh, but I believe scale-to-fit works the same way on all Phosh distributions.

Doing the following returns no info:

Code:

WAYLAND_DEBUG=client
flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium |& grep app_id

Also tried it with WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 with the same result. I see in the link there's a global setting to scale all apps but I don't know if that will have some kind of undesirable side effects.

The app ID I used for the flatpak chromium.Chromium was Chromium. Case sensitive.

[Zebulon Walton]

The app ID I used for the flatpak chromium.Chromium was Chromium. Case sensitive.

That's what I used initially but it didn't work. Not a big problem since the screen can be manually scaled as a workaround.

[MtnSk8]

Thanks for posting. I had not originally planned to run Chromium but I have to admit for certain things it's really nice. 

I use the "Scrollbar Customizer" extension and set the scroll bar size to 0 - Highly Recommend!
Also I use "The New Tab - Customizer" extension to avoid that google slap you get with the default new tab page.
And of course "AdBlock" and "AdBlock for Youtube".

Chromium can exit full screen without losing all the menu bars and then crashing! Bonus!!

There is a crucial addon I use that just won't display on FF.  On Chromium it works without a hitch and I'm one (big) step closer to ditching the tethered android I drag around with me .

My tip: Keep an @ symbol copied to the clipboard, you never know when you may need it,


Anyway, I need to enter my password to load it, is that normal?

Thanks!

[C0ffeeFreak]

Thanks for posting. I had not originally planned to run Chromium but I have to admit for certain things it's really nice. 

I use the "Scrollbar Customizer" extension and set the scroll bar size to 0 - Highly Recommend!
Also I use "The New Tab - Customizer" extension to avoid that google slap you get with the default new tab page.
And of course "AdBlock" and "AdBlock for Youtube".

Chromium can exit full screen without losing all the menu bars and then crashing! Bonus!!

There is a crucial addon I use that just won't display on FF.  On Chromium it works without a hitch and I'm one (big) step closer to ditching the tethered android I drag around with me .

My tip: Keep an @ symbol copied to the clipboard, you never know when you may need it,


Anyway, I need to enter my password to load it, is that normal?

Thanks!

Great tips thanks. Yes, Chromium based browsers are added to your key ring for extra security. You have to enter the password on first launch after each reboot of the phone to unlock it.

[C0ffeeFreak]

From the home screen select the extensions in the top bar (looks like a puzzle piece) and select the extension not the three dots on the side of it and you will see the selection drop down. You may have to make your selections in landscape mode until you get the mobile user agent string set.

Thanks, that did the trick, but it looks like the latest version of Chrome available in the extension is 87.0.4280.101, not 4290. I found that scale-to-fit Chromium on didn't really seem to do anything, but I used the screen scaling script that was posted on the board here (I think it was from here) to make the browser a better fit on the screen. I could not find a link to the that script but it's here below, I've found the 1.75x scale setting works well for Chromium without making things on the screen too small to see. I run it from a .desktop file placed in ~/.local/share/applications.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
yad --title scale_screen --form \
  --field='Default dpi (2x scale)':fbtn "wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 2" \
  --field='Low dpi (1.75x scale)!window-restore-symbolic':fbtn "wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1.75" \
  --field='Medium dpi (1.5x scale)!window-minimize-symbolic':fbtn "wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1.5" \
  --field='High dpi (1.25x scale)!window-maximize-symbolic':fbtn "wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1.25" \
  --field='Max dpi (1x scale)!view-fullscreen-symbolic':fbtn "wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1" \
  --field='Restart Phosh':fbtn "sudo systemctl restart phosh" \
  --button='Close!gtk-cancel':1

Is the name of the file Chromium.desktop? I tried it and no results.

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[C0ffeeFreak]

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Glad I could be of help.