hannah commodore <hannah@tinfoilhat.net> writes:
Is there a terminal emulator available in ChromeOS? For web and terminal, maybe the default installation would work just as well
Yes. When I was fiddling with mine, Ctrl+Alt+T in chrome (after logging in) took me to a tty tab, where "shell" gave me bash and "sudo -i" gave me root. I could also do Ctrl+Alt+F2 (where F2 is labelled →) to get to a bare tty, but I *think* that was after I enabled "developer mode". OTOH, somebody told me that the dirty hack SSH client plugin for chromeos, doesn't support keys! Anyways, I reflashed mine with Debian Jessie within 24h as the Goddess intended, not bothering to keep a copy of chromeos. I won't regret that until I try to get bt working and realize I blew away my only copy of the firmware blob... :-) Most interesting thing so far: the Caps Lock position is *actually* the penguin key, a.k.a. Super. There's no xkb option to swap it with Ctrl, but XKBOPTIONS=altwin:ctrl_win in /etc/default/keyboard makes it another control key. I've clearly been spoilt by the IPS display on my TF101, because on the C720 the blacks are grey, and the viewing angle is bad enough that reading a book sideways, one of my eyes is always outside the angle, so the text "shimmers" unless I close an eye. I had assumed all displays were better than that by now, but I guess not. Far less noticable if you are one of those black-on-white weirdos. The SD card sticks out of the machine, so I can't just leave it in. Didn't realize that was still a thing, either. It has active cooling (which I knew from the pictures), but it's weird to have it slowly baking my thighs -- I've gotten used to having the bottom half of the clamshell being nothing but battery. And as usual, I forgot to account for the padding in my bag, so it was a quarter-inch too big and I needed to buy *another* laptop bag. Bleh. On the plus side, *I can install things!* Like a new kernel! and I have an SSD instead of a dying eMMC that koopses when I try to delete files! Bash starts in under 2s again! In a week or two Stockholm syndrome will kick in and I'll be fine :-P