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Roll20 as Chrome app

I'm trying to figure out the correct voodoo ritual to get Roll20 not  to show me the URL and page title of a Roll20 game when using it as an app. That is to say, I want to make Roll20 a windowed app in Google Chrome that hides all the browser interface. I can do this easily, but going into a specific game, the URL and title of the page start to show at the top. Normally, Chrome does this when you go to another web domain in the app, but even if I create the app for app.roll20.net, it still starts to show the URL and title when going into a specific game. I can create an app for a specific game and it won't show, but I want to create an app starting at my list of games, and launching one game doesn't show the URL and title. This works correctly in Microsoft Edge, but Roll20 complains about Edge not being supported, so I've been trying to reproduce this in Chrome, and it's not working. Anybody got any ideas? Any experience getting this to work?
It looks like Google is deprecating their Apps feature , but there may still be a way to do what you want. There's an answer on this forum about opening a browser page in a window without the address bar. I just tested it and it worked for me (using Google Chrome on a Macbook). Go to the webpage Choose More Tools > Create Shortcut (which will appear on desktop but not as an app) Go to chrome://apps Right-click on the new shortcut and choose Open as window Right-click again on the shortcut and choose Create shortcuts... Choose where to store the shortcut and click Create This will create the right shortcut with the appid= parameter exactly as before. However, with Chrome, it's unknown how long this method will keep on working.
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keithcurtis
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What platform are you using? On a Mac this would be easy (press the maximize button), but I have very little Windows or Linux experience.
I'm not asking how to make apps; I'm asking what page to set the app up on to avoid the URL and title from appearing at the top. I'm on Windows, but I'm not looking to maximize the browser window; I'm looking to use Roll20 in its app mode and  not show the URL and title when I enter a game.
I'm not an app developer either - my understanding is the feature within Google Chrome that allows a non-maximized window to be displayed in 'app mode' without the URL and title is a feature of the Google Apps product, which is being deprecated.   Did following those steps work for you?
No. Never mind, I'm obviously not making my purpose clear.
I think I worked out what you want. Try setting the app URL to <a href="https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/</a> Note: visiting that URL will redirect to <a href="https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/search/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/search/</a> and using this as the Chrome app causes the URL bar to appear when visiting other pages but the first one doesn't. I accomplished this by changing the windows shortcut to be "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome_proxy.exe" --profile-directory=Default --app=<a href="https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/</a>
That's a step in the right direction, thanks. I'm trying to find where Chrome stores the actual app rather than just the shortcut, but it's proving tricky.