crouton integration

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Improves integration with crouton chroots.

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Does *not* install crouton; you still need to be in developer mode.

Required to support the "xiwi" target, which puts X11 in a native window.

Also adds handy things like Chromium OS URL handling, notifications, and clipboard synchronization to crouton.

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

Latest reviews

foreskininspector69 2022-10-31: very good
Luna Williams 2022-07-05: thx sad its unlisted tho
Crossing Light Years 2020-03-22: could not add feauther for opening window by default instead of full screen
Anita D 2019-06-18: This extension is great when it works. Unfortunately, I spend most of my time removing and re-installing it, because it continually disconnects. Let me know if there is a fix for this or an updated version of this extension. Appreciate advice from anyone. Thanks
Sergey Shirin 2019-01-31: Everything is okay except clipboard integration. There is no clipboard integration with crouton on my Pixelbook. Most likely, I should go back to original Pixelbook's linux apps support.
Kester Clegg 2018-09-09: Fantastic to have chroot on a Chromebook. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Andrew Borg 2018-07-24: So useful
Shaun Biggs 2018-06-18: Finally got xfce working again on my Kali install. Doesn't seem to have the same resolution as the old native x11 run, which is knocking one star off. But that appears to be my only issue with functionality. One note... Please include Hugo Dawson's instructions for how to install on the splash page. It was the only reference I could find on how to install this on an already existing chroot. Very helpful to those of us not terribly familiar with crouton.
Karambwantastefunny 2017-11-19: Causes everything to run noticeably slower.
Luca Bosi 2017-09-24: Working like a charm. I feel back to the old days of my Nokia n900. Just a seamless integration with the chroot.
The Source 2017-06-23: doesnt connect. just want to make my chromebook useful...
David W. Scott 2017-01-17: Makes linux on chromeos dev mode easier and more functional imho.
Danilo Freire 2016-09-28: Love the extension and the crouton project, but I also only figure out how to configure it after reading Hugo Dawnson's message below. tl;dr: type sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -u -t xiwi before installing the extension. Profit.
Anonymous 2016-09-24: Revolutionary
William Barath 2016-08-30: Read Hugo Dawson's comments if you really want to use this extension because the extension itself tells you nothing about how to actually make it work. This extension is not strictly required to run a Crouton Chroot in a Chrome Tab/Window. You can use VNC instead by installing one of the VNC clients for ChromeOS and then you can set up your chroot to use either x11vnc to redirect the regular X11 session, or you can use xvfb + x11vnc from a login shell, or xtightvncserver for that matter. Or you can even configure X11 to use the VNC display driver.
최근 2016-06-16: GREAT.
Hugo Dawson (Webhandler) 2016-05-24: Edited because I was frankly a bit rude to start with, D. Schneider has done an excellent job with this stable of tools, but when written: Required to support the "xiwi" target, which puts X11 in a native window. The kind of information that can be labelled 'if you understand this, you are probably not reading it'. You need to install xiwi to get the extension to work. This is best done when you first install the crouton installation sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -u -t xiwi is the code to update, where for 'crouton' read ubuntu, if you run another version, add -r your version here after crouton and before -u
Andras Komaromi 2016-05-23: This extension - as well as the whole crouton project - is a gift to humanity.
Michael 2016-05-14: I agree with others that this is the preferred way to run Linux on a chromebook.
Ammy King 2016-04-13: in my xolo chromebook i can't install crouton integration extantion what can do for install it????
john schrock 2016-03-19: Its Great!!
Phoenix Lemalu 2016-03-07: what I don't get is how it's unlisted - like even on Google Search - mind you we got here to this great extension in the end so thats the main thing i suppose. Perfect App,
Anonymous 2016-02-02: Brilliant work. Thanks heaps.
Lorenzo Whitesell 2016-02-01: I got it to work, its just that its extremely laggy though :(
Curtis Mitchell 2016-01-16: Allows for (and required to) a chroot environment to be run in a window on a Chrome OS device allowing for quick and easy access to both your Linux distro and Chrome OS as well as a slew of other features. As noted in the crouton documentation, it is not ideal for complex applications such as games, etc. but as most Chrome OS devices ship with hardware unsuitable for such uses, this hardly seems relevant. Largely eliminates the flaws of crouton (poor software selection) by allowing for numerous Linux apps to be run natively on the machine.
Eli Grey 2015-12-16: Great extension, but why do you have it unlisted in the Chrome Web Store? Users can't even find this extension by Googling "crouton integration extension".
William Mitchell Jr 2015-12-05: Worked for me.
Just my two cents Cents 2015-11-20: THIS is AWESOME! I am super impressed. I can use skype with it and its just an awesome application! Thanks!
Anonymous 2015-11-04: This is incredible! It makes my pixel a primary machine! It has been locking up lately, forcing a hard shut down, I hope it's not the extension.
Alfie Original 2015-10-23: Integration not working with ARM CPU
Anonymous 2015-10-14: if you use Crouton, this makes it much easier. thanks!
Aj Miller 2015-10-10: Works like a charm. Best part is since it opens in chrome OS. Have the same keys for brightness and volume that work flawlessly
John H 2015-09-28: It just worked!
Marc de Courville 2015-08-17: Can you please include an option to disable the fullscreen popup that is annoying. Great work!
Lil Trihard7 2015-07-25: please fix the connection, sometimes its not connected, and i cant open my linux on my chromebook, please work on that
Maxence Keytsman 2015-07-13: super
Bill Bruner 2015-07-06: Thank you again, David. This extension makes Crouton an even more seamless part of the Chromebook experience - and a more valuable tool for getting work done. Well done.
Jack 2015-06-19: I love you
James Cariello 2015-05-22: Dramatically improves the ChromeOS+Crouton experience.
Spencer 2015-05-14: for every1 else this seems to be working but for me this doesnt work! I have an acer c720 and i run unity 14.04 edit: got it working although i had to powash and redownload unity 14.04 so far its a bit laggy tho
Steve Shaffer 2015-05-12: Like magic!
Ryoji Sakai 2015-05-06: amaging!
Jazzz 2015-05-03: This is amazing! Is there any way to stop crouton from handling URLs?
Ceo Pgviews 2015-04-24: it works great thanks a lot i'm using crouton back again :) I wished only there were more options like starting my linux automaticly when pressing a button and starting at bootup, or switching my chrome os desktop with the linux one and still be able to use all the chrome os features
Boiko Balev 2015-04-24: excellent
Alex Mull 2015-04-23: Unbelievable extension! Perfect!
Sree Vadde 2015-04-02: seamless freon x11 switch
Alex Shroyer 2015-04-01: Really digging the ability to have an application in its own window. All of a sudden ChromeOS looks like a "real" operating system.
Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka 2015-03-30: Very nice!
William Murphy 2015-03-27: I'm currently running ChromeOS on an extended display, while xfce runs on my main. Started off using this with Unity; everything was a little laggy so I installed xfce and tried that instead. To my surprise, all applications I had installed over Unity transferred over! An excellent extension.

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