Bug 17385 - feature request: start chromium with options configured on a per user basis
Summary: feature request: start chromium with options configured on a per user basis
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Lécureuil
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Reported: 2015-12-23 15:03 CET by Lutz Lacher
Modified: 2024-09-15 19:29 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: chromium-browser-stable-47.0.2526.106-1.mga6.src.rpm
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Description Lutz Lacher 2015-12-23 15:03:42 CET
Description of problem:

I'm using chromium with kwallet as password-store and it would be nice to read user options from a file. I'm using a slightly modified version of chromium-wrapper:

cat chromium-wrapper.patch
--- /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromium-wrapper        2015-12-09 19:35:59.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromium-wrapper        2015-12-12 16:56:47.056993615 +0100
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
 # Mageia addition: use PepperFlash from Google Chrome if installed:
+USER_ARGS=
+[ -r $HOME/.config/chromium_flags.conf ] && . $HOME/.config/chromium_flags.conf
 EXTRA_ARGS=
 CHROME_FLASH="/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so"
 CHROME_FLASH_MANIFEST="/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/manifest.json"
@@ -37,4 +39,4 @@
   EXTRA_ARGS="$EXTRA_ARGS --ppapi-flash-path=$CHROME_FLASH --ppapi-flash-version=$CHROME_FLASH_VERSION"
 fi
 
-exec -a "$0" "$PROGDIR/chrome" $EXTRA_ARGS "$@"
+exec -a "$0" "$PROGDIR/chrome" $USER_ARGS $EXTRA_ARGS "$@"


with chromium_flags.conf containing e.g. 

cat $HOME/.config/chromium_flags.conf
USER_ARGS=" --ssl-version-min=tls1.1 --password-store=kwallet "


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Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-12-31 11:55:12 CET
Assigning to maintainer, who can decide to accept or reject the request.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Bug_policy#Enhancement_requests

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

David Walser 2016-01-07 00:22:12 CET

CC: (none) => cjw

Samuel Verschelde 2016-08-25 16:24:45 CEST

Assignee: mageia => kde

Comment 2 Nicolas Lécureuil 2017-03-17 12:06:45 CET
not a kde bug but this bugreport is intereseting and would vote for.

CC: (none) => mageia
Assignee: kde => bugsquad

Samuel Verschelde 2017-03-17 12:32:38 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 3 sturmvogel 2024-09-15 19:29:38 CEST
PepperFlash is EOL since 2020 and actively blocked in Chromium/Chrome.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD


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