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Google Chrome with root and sound

Post#1 by amplatfus » 22 Jul 2017, 13:21

Hi,

I managed to run Chrome under root using below sh

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sudo su guest << BASH
  /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --start-maximized;
BASH
But I have no sound. In LXDE same script, same version of Chrome worked fine with sound under root.
But now with Porteus-v3.2.2 XFCE Kernel: 4.9.0-porteus I have sound only when I run chrome under guest.

Could you please give a hint?
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Re: Google Chrome with root

Post#2 by Ed_P » 22 Jul 2017, 17:01

Hi amplatfus.

May I ask why you want to run Chrome as root? Especially if it runs ok as guest?
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Re: Google Chrome with root

Post#3 by amplatfus » 22 Jul 2017, 17:28

Ed_P wrote:Hi amplatfus.

May I ask why you want to run Chrome as root? Especially if it runs ok as guest?
Because I frequently need to edit folders that are created using a ftp account. And these foldere are made automated as root and I cannot change it.

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Re: Google Chrome with root

Post#4 by francois » 22 Jul 2017, 17:55

I do not know why but, there is no sound with:

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su -c google-chrome guest
So I use opera.
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Re: Google Chrome with root and sound

Post#5 by beny » 22 Jul 2017, 19:47

i have chromium so you have to edited /etc/chromium/00-default.conf with this line: # Options to pass to chromium:
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--user-data-dir"
and for me work to use it with root, take a try

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Re: Google Chrome with root and sound

Post#6 by francois » 23 Jul 2017, 02:42

All you need to do is to modify the last line of the file /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome from:

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exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome"  "$@" 
to:

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exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome"  "$@" --user-data-dir
Also, in my case:
If you need to run as root for development, rerun with the --no-sandbox flag:

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root@porteus:~# /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --no-sandbox
And I get a message about security that will suffer.
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Google Chrome with root and sound

Post#7 by amplatfus » 31 Jul 2017, 20:38

Thank you. I choose to use guest account. All the best,
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Re: Google Chrome with root and sound

Post#8 by francois » 06 Jan 2019, 16:31

No reason to why it works again, but it works now:

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su -c google-chrome guest
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Post#9 by amplatfus » 06 Jan 2019, 17:36

Happy New Year! Thanks so much for follow up. In the meantime I switched my profile from root to guest with all my settings.
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Re: Google Chrome with root and sound

Post#10 by francois » 06 Jan 2019, 18:08

Happy new year to you amplatfus. :happy62:

It will be good for short term posterity.
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Post#11 by Flexdj » 01 Sep 2019, 00:55

sudo -u guest google-chrome

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Post#12 by rchase » 29 May 2021, 19:16

The proposed solutions (other than logging in as guest) do not seem to work;
su -c google-chrome guest
and
sudo -u guest google-chrome
produce
google-chrome: command not found
I downloaded the Porteus server edition of Chrome (89.0.4389.90) using update-browser and the module is shown as loaded, but it won't run from the root account. What is needed to run Chrome as root?

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Google Chrome with root and sound

Post#13 by beny » 29 May 2021, 21:13

hi, via terminal or konsole start chrome with --no-sandbox, with opera work try it for...

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