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[Peter Hultqvist <phq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2014-07-07 16:14, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>
>     phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ webapp-container --enable-back-forward
>     --webappUrlPatterns=https?://miiverse.nintendo.net/*
>     <http://miiverse.nintendo.net/*> https://miiverse.nintendo.net/
>     webapp-container: unrecognized option '--enable-back-forward'
>     webapp-container: unrecognized option
>     '--webappUrlPatterns=https?://miiverse.nintendo.net/*
>     <http://miiverse.nintendo.net/*>'
>     QUbuntu: Could not create application instance
>     Aborted (core dumped)
>
>     On my desktop running 14.04 LTS, oxide launches and displays the page.
>
>
> As I said in another response in this thread, the "unrecognized
> option" error messages are misleading and can be safely ignored.
>
> The abort you’re getting is because apps are not meant to be launched
> this way on Ubuntu Touch. If you really want to launch it from the
> command line (you should probably use the SDK that allows you to
> launch the app on a connected device with one click), try adding a
> --desktop_file_hint= parameter to your command line, e.g.:
>
> webapp-container
> --desktop_file_hint=/usr/share/applications/webbrowser-app.desktop
> --enable-back-forward
> --webappUrlPatterns=https?://miiverse.nintendo.net/*
> <http://miiverse.nintendo.net/*> https://miiverse.nintendo.net/
>
> Beware, do not add that to the exec command in your desktop file
> though, this is unnecessary and will confuse unity8 into thinking that
> the browser app is running.
>
This guide implies that you can launch it from the command line, perhaps
it need to be updated.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/web/guides/ubuntu-webapps-guide/