Is there a way to make google chrome (running under ubuntu) open fullscreen by default?

Question

Is there a way to make google chrome open fullscreen by default? Also, is there a hotkey to make it fullscreen?

Answer 1

From the source file itself.

// Start the browser maximized, regardless of any previous settings.
const char kStartMaximized[]                = "start-maximized";

Try --start-maximized?

The bug filed regarding F11 fullscreen not working with GTK is marked fixed, and checked in 5 weeks ago. Not sure how old your version of Chrome is, or whether you're using trunk builds.

Answer 2

I don't think it's in there yet.

I checked the keyboard shortcuts for Google Chrome and while there is one for Windows, there isn't one for Linux...

There is a feature request for the so called 'kiosk mode' on Google Code

Answer 3

I recommend using Compiz's Window Rules to make apps start Maximized. I haven't done with Chrome specifically, but I'd say it's very likely to work.

Answer 4

You can start chromium on Ubuntu 11.04 in kiosk mode (fullscreen) with

chromium-browser --kiosk http://www.google.com

It also has a hotkey mapped to F11