How to put a Web App in the Plank Dock in Elementary Linux

Recently, I've started using Elementary OS Linux.
I like the clean design and the fast system. It was possible to configure Linux systems to be beautiful before, but It needs a lot of time. Not with Elementary OS. There are some issues tough (no minimize button in the title bar, no quick showing of the desktop, missing hotkeys), but these can be forgiven.

I just found out how to put any website in the dock, that way web apps can be as convienent as native apps. The standard way with google chrome (settings button > more tools > create app shortcut) did not work.

What you should do is install chrome with:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome.

After that you can just run: 

google-chrome -app="http://trello.com"

Put your desired url instead of trello.com.

 

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Written by Andreas Wildi on Wednesday November 12, 2014
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