Openbox - multiple Chrome Browsers on different Desktops - google-chrome

I set up a auto openbox session in mein lightdm configuration and I try to understand how to manage and arrange windows.
Now I try to have Browser in Appmode running. In my understandig it is not possible to open multiple tabs in appmode but I need more than one Website in the same time I have decided to have multiple Browsers in different Desktops.
I used obxprop to determine the OB_NAME of the different chrome windows but I recognized that all of them have the same name.
Is there a way to distinguish between them so that I can have one Browser running on every desktop?
I know kiosk mode allows multiple tabs but I also need a florence keyboard on top of all and as far as I know this is not possible if there are windows in full screen.
Thanks in advance

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Any knows if Chrome can do this?
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You can though, create the device with your specifications, HERE's a more complete list of available devices, where you can also shorten the length to get the size without the space of the status bar (yeah, not useful for the latest gen).
To better QA on mobile devices, maybe try something like Blisk, BrowserStack, Slant...
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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.
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Chrome kiosk or fullscreen in extended mode screen (two monitors)

Is it possible to make a Chrome window display in kiosk mode on two monitors in Windows 7?
I know this thread is 3 years old but since this is still one of the first results in google search for this topic, I thought it wouldn't hurt to point out that you can accomplish this if you have a normal nVidia gtx card (no need for a Quadro/mosaic), by going to the nVidia control panel, on the left click on Configure surround, physx and then configure in the Configure surround section.
From there you can enable the nVidia surround feature which will make windows believe it has one monitor with a custom resolution (which will be the sum of your multiple monitors res). If you have 3 1920x1080 monitors it will show a single monitor with a resolution of 5760x1080. Once you've done that you just have to enable kiosk mode like always and chrome will open up as expected, with a single ultrawide full-screen window across all the three displays.
Like #Alir user said in that post (How to extend chrome browser to dual display on fullscreen) it could be done with nVidia desktop mosaic feature on Windows.
AMD graphic card users have option to create one monitor too in AMD catalyst center under Multiple monitor option.
Then all you need to do is press F11 in Chrome and display page across all monitors.

Windows / Chrome / ATI / Browser fullscreen across multiple monitors

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.

HTML APIs for touch devices?

What HTML APIs are available for touch screen devices (e.g. tablet PCs)? I notice that GMail's iPad interface (and other mobile interfaces) doesn't scroll down in a normal web browser (pretending to be an iPad via a user-agent hack). How can one access this API on a PC?
I have a school full of tablet PCs that aren't wonderful in tablet mode due to lack of application support, but there looks to be an increasing number of web-based apps that will fill this gap.
In most cases, the webapps are using touch-based javascript events (touch, touchstart, touchend) which (for obvious reasons) are not implemented on Desktop browsers.
Check out PPK's compatibility table for details: http://quirksmode.org/mobile/tableTouch.html.
He also has a demo which shows the touch events in use: http://quirksmode.org/m/tests/scrollayer.html. There's a link on that page for a "variant" that works on desktop browsers. That's the one you need.
You can use, as you've already stated, UserAgent, to present content laid out specifically for certain devices.
For each, device, you'll have to read its documentation on how to write HTML in order to make the device behave as you want.
For example, here's how you would do it for an iPhone/iPodTouch. Here's for iPad. Similarly, depending on the device you have, you will be able to find proper documentation.
There is an awesome open database that can help you get device information based on user agent. It's called WURFL.