Lunch chromium app directly withou opening the browser

chromium-app-luncher.md

First get the app id

• Go to the pat h/home/paradox/.local/share/applications/
• When you open each file, you will see the texts in following format:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=ScreenMeter Time Tracker
Exec=chromium --profile-directory=Default --app-id=ngdikfecpjmmbbfoleehgojgmekeehad
Icon=chrome-ngdikfecpjmmbbfoleehgojgmekeehad-Default
StartupWMClass=crx_ngdikfecpjmmbbfoleehgojgmekeehad

• Just copy the Exec part for next step

Create a bash script

• Create a bash script such as some-name.sh.
• Inside this, paste the Exec part
• Make sure the script is executable that can be done using chmod command
• add the script to the system path

Note The --profile-directory=Default part can be ignore

Little of rofi

I use Rofi as an application luncher/switcher with my i3 configuration.
So, I put the script inside /bin/ path directly so that Rofi will be able to catch the script name.