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I use two operating systems daily: Ubuntu 15.04 with the Unity desktop environment and Manjaro with KDE-plasma-5 desktop. I spend a good chunk of time in my email and it is convenient for me to have it behave like a stanalone program, rather than a tab in chromium.
On both systems, I can create a launcher for gmail, via the settings menu under "More tools". On Ubuntu/Unity, I can add this launcher to the panel and it will act as a standalone program with its own separate icon and keyboard shortcut. On Manjaro/KDE, I the gmail shortcut displays a unique icon, but as soon as the program is started, the gmail window will be recognized as a chromium window and it will be merged with existing chromium windows in the panel instead of retaining the icon that is displayed on the shortcut. I have also tried to create the shortcuts directly with command line flags as described in this rather old post, but the behavior is the same.
How can I mimic the Unity behavior in KDE? Is it possible to get a webapp to behave like a standalone program or will it always merge into any existing open chromium window?
So you just want to run a stand-alone instance of a web browser, separate from the regular browser's profile? Try a web search for that? Firefox works great with "-no-remote" and "-p" – Xen2050 – 2015-12-20T08:22:49.117
As I mentioned, I have tried running chrome with the command line flags for a single separate window (both
app
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), but this is still merged with any open chrome window. I tried your firefox suggestion and they same thing happens, the window is grouped in the panel together with any other open firefox instance. Using your suggestions, I also have to choose the profile each time rather than having gmail open directly. – joelostblom – 2015-12-20T15:46:17.777