In a digital sign application, the screen is broken into zones. I want to open a browser in a zone with a specific URL.
Chrome - opens in the specific zone in app mode, but keeps the title bar. Kiosk mode does not stay in the zone.
Firefox - does not stay in the zone when using kiosk mode.
CEF browser - stays in the zone, looks perfect, but does not render the website correctly. it's not scaling.
I have tried -sbb mode for firefox as well as app and kiosk modes. CEF browser is a little more difficult to navigate. It works fine in larger zones, but in smaller zones the content doesn't scale. We tested the content in other browsers and it scales, but the aforementioned issues reside.
We need to open the browser from a command line. There are no users on-site. No keyboard and mouse. It needs to work automatically.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
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I'm trying to help a family member with a Chrome browser problem remotely, but there's no possibility of using remote interaction software. So I'm stuck asking here if anyone has seen this problem where Chrome won't exit out of full screen mode. She hits F11 and it toggles between what you see in the screenshots. However, she can't minimize, drag to the right, or resize the window to normalcy. It's just toggling between these two views with F11 with no ability to interact with the browser in non-fullscreen mode. Several times she has reinstalled Chrome but it still does this. Any ideas?
I have been fatal for a few days with this incident. After the latest Chrome updates I am left with a headache.
We have ASUS v161 touch screens (although it happens to us in more models), and we open the chrome in kiosk mode. The power configuration is high performance and we only turn off the screen after 15 minutes (no sleep). We have also tried disabling anything that turns off the hard drive or usb without success.
We have tried to activate all the touch flags, we have deactivated the hardware acceleration, etc ... But it is happening with the last 3 updates.
Chrome version: 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build) (64 bits)
Windows version:
Windows 10 Pro Edition
Version 20H2
Installed on 09/25/2020
Operating system version 19042.746
Windows Experience Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0
The issue is that when you return from the off screen, by touching with your finger, the screen turns on but the web content that chrome shows does not respond.
If we do not open it in kiosk mode, it does not respond until we touch anywhere in Windows or in the chrome address bar, then it begins to respond. But the web does not respond by itself if we do not touch outside of it. The web is frozen, te text cursor are freeze. (This also happens with Edge) It does not happen with Firefox.
If you hit it with the mouse, no problem, all return to be responsive
Video attachment: https://youtu.be/BH2abO6AXaM
In the video it is clear how the system activates the screen with touch, but chrome is frozen, the cursor does not move, it does not respond to any link, there is a moment where the screen goes blank, and at the end you see how it responds when I touchthe address bar. This happens right away if you hit the address bar or any other windows/desktop of Windows.
When Chome wake up all touch response are ok and the cursor blink again. If like's Chrome still sleeping until other event different than touch success.
Thanks a lot
Jorge
I was having this problem too for a few months, but it went away with Chrome v91. Upgrade to the latest version of Chrome if you're still on a lower version.
Link to app
I've written the media queries to make the app responsive and they looked fine when I'm viewing them via Chrome DevTools. First screenshot is from Chrome DevTools, second is from my iPhone X:
Iphone X has a screen size of 325x812, which is the first difference.
Secondly, G Chrome Dev is an emulator, which means it only simulates what a page will look like on a specific device. It does not account for hardware and software (say which browser you're using). They use different rendering engines, so deviations are bound to occur.
I checked the URL, you are using react to make your page responsive which takes care of your application to be visualize properly on all the screen size.
You have design correctly only, you don't want your users to open desktop view in mobile.
I've got a little problem with my website and ipad/iphones. A certain tag in my css causes problems and I'm unable to check if I've solved the problem. Is there a way to look at my website as if on an ipad while not actually buying an ipad. Is there something like an ipad emulator or something?
You can use web (free) services that provide such functionality. There is a lot of them. For example: http://ipadpeek.com/ or http://mobiletest.me/.
There is also a simple solution that doesn't require any further app installation.
If you're running google Chrome you can enter the developer tools by hitting F12 on a PC and Command+option+I on a Mac.
In the developer tools you have on the top left corner of the screen a mobile device emulator, which you can choose various different models of mobile devices from. not just iPad and iPhone.
Note that you have to refresh the page each time you change a device emulator. Otherwise it won't load with all the characteristics of the current emulation.
I am using the following test setup (Latest meaning as of July 14th 2012):
Core i7 with an ATI FirePro V9800 (Eyefinity)
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit (latest updates / patches)
Latest Catalyst drivers
Latest Google Chrome Stable / Canary.
6 x 1080p displays (in a row) resulting in a 11520px by 1080px desktop.
I have tried the following to get a fullscreen web view across displays:
Set the maximize to whole desktop setting in the Catalyst control panel. That works for maximizing normal windows (except Chrome), but not for anything fullscreen.
Tried Chrome Kiosk mode (that would be ideal), same problem, only fills up primary display.
Using Chrome Fullscreen or HTML5 fullscreen API results in the same: Fullscreen on a single of the 6 monitors.
IE9 seems to have a limitation of about 10000px for the webview, thus i cannot even stretch it across the entire desktop manually (that works with Chrome).
Tried UltraMon.
Tried a number of Chrome command line switches (http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/) for kiosk mode, start in fullscreen etc., so right now using the --app="http://127.0.0.1/index.html" switch to at least get rid of most of Chrome's UI elements.
Tried to find an extension for Chrome, but no success.
Tried Chrome Frame in IE9, also only uses one display.
I understand it is most probably a driver issue reporting the wrong desktop size to Chrome (which I thought was the point of the Catalyst Maximize to full desktop size function). Chrome does not seem to get the desktop size from the same place as other "normal" windows do (obviously not very familiar with Windows windowing).
I would like to work on a full-screen Chrome webview across multiple monitors or a completely chromeless window that I can manually maximize. My browser configuration is flexible, even the OS is somewhat flexible.
I would like to know:
Has anyone gotten a fullscreen browser view across more than 1 monitor to work with Chrome (or any browser)?
Are there any tools that can fake the right (full) display size to Chrome?
Could this be workable in Windows 8?
Is there something that just displays a Chromeless Chrome browser that runs the very latest Chrome? (I have seen awesomium, but find that its price is too high for what I want it to do). Also I want to be able to use the most recent Chrome releases ideally.
Any comments welcome and sorry for the lengthy details.
Thanks for reading!
-Tobi
This worked for me using two monitors:
start C:\Users\terminal\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --app="http://www.domain1.com" --window-position=0,0 --kiosk --user-data-dir=c:/monitor1
start C:\Users\terminal\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --app="http://www.domain2.com" --window-position=1680,0 --kiosk --user-data-dir=c:/monitor2
I think the order of the parameters is relevant.