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{{note|Expect issues since [https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/docs/ozone_overview.md Ozone] (which enables Wayland support) is still in development!}} | {{note|Expect issues since [https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/docs/ozone_overview.md Ozone] (which enables Wayland support) is still in development! Related issue: {{issue|998|pmaports}}}} | ||
There have been problems reported using Chromium under XWayland, getting <code>cannot open display: :0</code> errors. | There have been problems reported using Chromium under XWayland, getting <code>cannot open display: :0</code> errors. | ||
Revision as of 17:29, 7 March 2021
This page explains how to make chromium usable in mobile UIs like plasma-mobile.

Installation
Install chromium package from alpine.
Configure startup (scale + useragent)
Edit /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop and set the following line:
Exec= chromium-browser %U --start-maximized --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; Nexus 5 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.99 Mobile Safari/537.36"
You may adapt scale and useragent to your needs.
Wayland
Expect issues since Ozone (which enables Wayland support) is still in development! Related issue: pmaports#998 |
There have been problems reported using Chromium under XWayland, getting cannot open display: :0
errors.
As described in the ArchWiki, since version 87 you should be able to use Chromium's native wayland support through the following flags:
$ chromium-browser --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
You might want to make these arguments persistent through adding them to the desktop file, located under /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop
.
Related issue: pmaports#998
On-screen keyboard
Currently on-screen keyboard does not work with plasma-mobile (see [1]). You may install this extension to get a virtual keyboard nevertheless (though it does not work with every website):
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/virtual-keyboard/pflmllfnnabikmfkkaddkoolinlfninn
- https://github.com/xontab/chrome-virtual-keyboard
Scroll-bar
Access "chrome://flags". To do that type it in the plasma-mobile search bar (on home screen), and then copy and paste it in the chromium url bar.
Enable the following flags:
- Smooth Scrolling
- Overlay Scrollbars
- Scroll prediction
This will allow to have a good scrolling experience, and hide scrollbar, so that it does not take screen-space.