Chromium on ChromiumOS as a web-desktop thoughts

[Lonnie TC]

Hello All,

Hope that you are doing well today.

As I understand the design of ChromiumOS, the core seems to be that there is a default instance of Chromium web browser started up as the "desktop" and then the taskbar (i.e. web browser button and file explorer for example) and control plane (i.e. settings, etc.) are browser extensions, but basically the whole things is an initial instance of the Chromium web browser.

When you select the web browser "button" then it instantiates another instance of the web browser.

Of course, I could be wrong on all of this, but that is what I have read about the core design of ChromiumOS.

With that in mind, I would like to modify things so that instead of having a background image in the "desktop", I would like to be able to connect to a web-desktop that is running on a local web server and have everything running in fullscreen mode.

I have investigated modifying the /etc/chrome_dev.conf to change various flags but have had not luck so far even by trying to force the kiosk mode.

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance and have a great day

Lonnie