Crosswalk Command Line Options

This page is intended to document the command line options specific to Crosswalk.

Note that when you build a Crosswalk application for Android, you can define command-line options for the runtime when building the package with make_apk.py.

In the examples below, the Crosswalk binary is denoted with xwalk. On Windows, the executable is called xwalk.exe. On Tizen, it is in /usr/lib/xwalk/xwalk; but Crosswalk applications are typically launched via the Crosswalk service, defined in /usr/lib/systemd/user/xwalk.service.

Name	Description	Example
--app-icon	Specified the icon file path for the app window, support both ICO and PNG file format.	xwalk --app-icon=XXX.png
--data-path	Specifies the folder name in system configuration folder for the web app launched by Crosswalk. On Linux, the configuration folder is $HOME/.config, while on Windows, it is $USER/AppData/Local	xwalk --data-path=myapp
Data goes into a new directory named myapp under xwalk working directory.
--fullscreen	Launch the application with fullscreen window.	xwalk --fullscreen
Launch Crosswalk with in full screen mode.
--remote-debugging-port	Enable remote debugging on the given local host port.	xwalk --remote-debugging-port=9222
Access 'http://localhost:9222' in Chrome Browser to see all inspectable pages running under Crosswalk.
--list-features-flags	List all the features flags of Crosswalk.	xwalk --list-features-flags
Display a list of all the feature flags of Crosswalk and the command line argument to switch them on or off.