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terminal command for Espruino Web IDE

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SteveInBavaria

I installed the Espruino Web IDE on my Ubuntu laptop a year or so ago. I am presently grouping my coding tools together in the Dock using this script

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Programming
GenericName=Programming
Comment=Open-source electronics prototyping platform
Exec="~/ArduinoLatest/Arduino-1.8.13/arduino-1.8.13/arduino"
Icon=~/Bilder/Icons/Clock.png
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;Electronics;
MimeType=text/x-arduino;
Keywords=embedded electronics;electronics;avr;microcontroller;
Actions= ArduinoBeta;UIFlow;M5_Burner;Espruino;;

[Desktop Action ArduinoBeta]
Name=Arduino-Beta
Exec=~/ArduinoLatest/Arduino-2/arduino-ide_2.0.0-beta.5_Linux_64bit/arduino-ide

[Desktop Action UIFlow]
Name=UI Flow
Exec=~~/UIFlowIDE/bin/uiflow-desktop-ide

[Desktop Action M5_Burner]
Name=M5_Burner
Exec=~/UIFlowIDE/M5Burner/bin/electron-m5burner-v2-eletron

[Desktop Action Espruino]
Name=Espruino
Exec=

The problem is that although I can search for and find and execute Espruino Web IDE vie the Activities menu and in Dock and "Dash to Dock" I cannot find the actual command used to launch the app. How can I find out what command the Dock is using?

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waltinator
Your `Exec=` commands (and `Icon=`) are flawed. Replace the `~` (and `~~`?) with the absolute path.
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SteveInBavaria
They are the absolute path in real life, I just didn't want the full paths published on the internet. But the script works perfectly well and I only published it as background. The problem, as I wrote, is I would like to know the command used by Dock to launch the Espruino Web IDE.
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Terrance
Do you mean `https://www.espruino.com/ide/` ?
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Terrance
`firefox https://www.espruino.com/ide/` will do it, or change to any browser that you are using before the web URL. Dock files are just `.desktop` files that have the full command in them. `Exec=/usr/bin/firefox https://www.espruino.com/ide/` or instead of `Exec=` you can use `URL=https://www.espruino.com/ide/` that will use your default browser to open the link in a `.desktop` file.
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SteveInBavaria
Thanks `Exec=google-chrome https://www.espruino.com/ide/` works by opening a chrome tab with the IDE and I can use this solution. However when the IDE opens from Dock it seems to be a simple window without other tabs, Url, or other Chrome stuff whereas when I open it with `google-chrome https://www.espruino.com/ide/` it either opens a new instance of Chrome or if one is already open, opens a new window. `URL=https://www.espruino.com/ide/` doesn't seem to do anything.
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Terrance

For the .desktop file you should be able to run the Espruino Web IDE with --app mode in Chrome.

Exec=google-chrome --app="https://www.espruino.com/ide/"

Hope this helps!

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SteveInBavaria
Perfect! Thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for although I didn't explain myself very well!
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