How to Pass a Program and Its Arguments to Startx
In Terminal, I Do Like This and It Works Fine: $Startx Google-Chrome-Stable It Brings up Chrome (Just as an Example) Fine. but Lets Say I Want to Do with Some...
In terminal, I do like this and it works fine:
$startx google-chrome-stable
It brings up chrome (just as an example) fine. But lets say I want to do with some arguments:
$startx google-chrome-stable -incognito
It fails, because it thinks -incognito is an argument for startx rather than chrome.
Whats the solution?
2 Answers
Use the following command
startx google-chrome-stable -incognito --
From man startx
The special argument '--' marks the end of client arguments and the
beginning of server options.
For others that may wonder, you should be using the full path to Google Chrome instead. If not, google-chrome-stable is passed as an argument to the default client.
To run Chrome as the client:
startx /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable -incognito
or, if you don't know where it is located:
startx `which google-chrome-stable` -incognito
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