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@botname: quit should quit Chrome.

That would temporarily work around issues like #1 (quit and then load a URL) and other issues like tab accumulation and solving strange states like Chrome being off-screen.

In the long run, finer-grained control over Chrome is required.

Currently open(1) is used to launch URLs in Chrome. There's a number of problems with this:

• Tabs accumulate; each open creates a new tab.
• If Chrome is already running, it wont enter presentation/kiosk mode.
• Sometimes open pushes full-screen Chrome onto an invisible desktop.
• There's no way to refresh/reload the currently URL.
• There's no good way to quit Chrome.

Instead, OSA / [JXA]([osascript -l JavaScript][osascript]) should be used to control Chrome.

Go's text/template could be used to generate the JavaScript, or it could be static (and possibly pre-compiled) and parameterized for URLs etc.

Some examples / notes:

chrome = Application("Google Chrome");
chrome.activate()
win = chrome.windows[0]; // may not work if running with zero windows.
tab = win.tabs[win.activeTabIndex() - 1];
tab.url = "http://99designs.com/"
tab.reload()
chrome.quit()

An alternate IPC/RPC mechanism would be required for other platforms like GNU/Linux.

Commands @botname: refresh and @botname: reload should trigger a browser refresh. This probably requires something like AppleScript / OSA / JavaScript for Automation or something, rather than the currently used and very limited open command.

It should be possible to install slacktv as a launchd agent/thing, so that it runs when Mac OS boots.
Ideally something like slacktv --install-launchd or slacktv --install-launchd="SECRET-SLACK-TOKEN-HERE" would take care of this.