How to open JupyterLab | Jupyter Notebook without browser menus/address bar, as a Desktop App-CodePudding

How to open JupyterLab | Jupyter Notebook without browser menus/address bar, as a Desktop App?

As a desktop application (not seeing the browser)
In any OS (Windows / Linux / Mac), that is, using functionality from the browser, not the OS.
In Google Chrome, without address bar, and without tabs, etc.

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If you have JupyterLab installed and running correctly, you normally open it going to something like:

http://<IP_of_the_machine>:8888/lab

http://localhost:8888/lab

if running locally.

If you use it often, you may prefer a more direct way and without the browser.

Something similar to

First of all, if you have JupyterLab you can also run the simpler Jupyter Notebook just by changing the url

# JupyterLab
URL="http://IP:8888/lab"

# Jupyter Notebook
URL="http://IP:8888/tree"

And by using the Chrome --app option, you could get the 2 windows above with

# JupyterLab
URL="http://192.168.1.30:8888/lab"

# Jupyter Notebook
URL="http://192.168.1.30:8888/tree"

# Comment out the one you don't want

/opt/google/chrome/chrome --app="$URL" &

(You may have to adapt a bit the script if using Windows)

You can place that in 2 shortcuts on your desktop and with a click you have it up and running.

This works the same if your Jupyter is remote (On Google Vertex AI for example) as long as the URL doesn't change.

Background story: https://superuser.com/questions/1292362/google-chrome-with-minimal-layout-without-address-bar-and-without-tabs