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I am trying to run epiphany browser in fullscreen mode. I tried using this command in terminal ;

epiphany-browser -a --profile http://www.google.com

--profile must be an existing directory when --application-mode is requested

Any help would be appreciated

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Almost all command line interfaces have man pages. Here's an excerpt from a copy of man epiphany-browser I found online:

SYNOPSIS

epiphany [OPTION...] [url]

--profile=FILE

Profile directory to use in the private instance

-a isn't in the copy I found, but it should be in yours (type man epiphany-browser at the command prompt); I'm guessing it's the short form of --application-mode. If that requires an argument, you should provide it.

If not, you should be fine by either getting rid of --profile, or providing an arg for that as well. You could also try -- (notice the spaces) before the URL; some CLI's respect this to indicate the end of arguments:

epiphany-browser -a --profile -- http://www.google.com

Of course, this is still an error since the --profile is pointless with no arg, but it may not be fatal and the URL may be recognized as such.

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