On the initial Chrubuntu image, the trackpad responsiveness is a bit sluggish. Fortunately, over at this blog a fix was found.
But until you fix the trackpad, you have to deal with a difficult copy and paste environment, so I’ve made it a bit easier for you. You can clone my chrubuntu_trackpad repository and just run the script! You did run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install git right away didn’t you?
Lastly be sure to check out The Chromebook Chronicles. It’s has a nice summary of known issues (fixed and not) and it’s a great consolidated spot for all things Chromebook and Chrubuntu.
Starting to geek out my Chromebook… A Creative Commons sticker would look nice in that blank spot.
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Thanks ever so much for the plug – let’s get this “Linux on Chromebook” community jump-started!
Glad there’s a few others showing interest in this stuff!
Hey, no problem. The XFCE environment you shared seems to be the way to go. I’ll have to try it out.
Great detailed posts, BTW.
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Hi, the location for the craig errington zip file (http://craigerrington.com/chrome/x_alarm_chrubuntu.zip) seems to be timing out… any idea where else we can get it? Thanks!
Yeah… his site seems to be down at the moment. Hopefully I stored a backup of that zip file
I’ll be able to check tomorrow. Maybe Craig’s site will be back up by then? Either way, I’ll reply back with an update.
Hey folks….craigerrington.com back up in next couple of hours… Sorry :/
jjb,
Craig’s site is back up (and I squirreled away a copy of the zip too…)
Thanks so much for the update! After some tweaks, it works great! (I did have to install xserver-xorg-video-fbdev to get X to come up…)
Sorry guys, sote back up in a couple of hours.
Craig.
NP, thanks Craig. I still haven’t made the switch to crouton yet. Eventually I’ll get tired of dual booting