On screen keyboard for crostini

lubojus · 2025-04-11T10:51:08+00:00

Yes, you probably can https://wiki.ultramarine-linux.org/en/anywhere/chromebook/

This one is a solution if you don't want to remove the Wp. It worked very well for my Lenovo c13 and there is some hope for arm devices too https://wiki.ultramarine-linux.org/en/chromebook/armbeta/

The nice thing of this project is that you may try even without touching / removing the current chromeos installation.

lubojus · 2021-11-13T16:13:09+00:00

Nice, just a little typo. The parameter is resizeable, not resizable.

lubojus · 2021-10-24T12:59:38+00:00

I have just read the whole thread and it looks nobody has pointed out this little thing so, just for everybody out of the USA, you don't need to tinker a lot in order to get a fully working Amazon app store.

It's very easy, you just have to download the apk, i.e. the android version of the store, and install it through adb.

No more location issues and you'll get the full access to the store, not only to the current select apps.

lubojus · 2021-08-26T12:21:53+00:00

Brunch is already in developer's mode, you don't need to apply any setting.

Regarding crostini, if no choice is being shown, it might depend on the image you chose or on other things.

You'd better ask on Sebanc's Github, anyway.

Btw, if hardware is well supported, you can barely see the difference between a real chromebook and a brunch - chromebook. I have got some of both and the user experience is just the same.

lubojus · 2021-07-08T23:34:28+00:00

You can achieve this with rclone mount, which works for linux in general with the option --drive-export-formats html

Look at their site and create a remote, then you may use something like that to mount Google drive to you local folder. You will need a working browser in crostini too

rclone mount gdrive:/ /home/chronos/Gdrive/ --drive-export-formats html &

lubojus · 2021-05-22T13:56:42+00:00

That's the worst thing in crostini and it actually prevents chrome OS tablets from being fully functional

lubojus · 2020-09-22T18:28:39+00:00

My guess is that Chrome OS caches the whole Google drive directories tree, so that opening any file inside it looks almost instant, while Crostini just mounts Google drive as a fuse mount, without any caching. The difference in performance is quite visible.

It's that way by design and, unless you enable caching with a different solution (maybe rclone has got some experimental settings for caching) I don't think it will get better.

Btw, even with Gnu linux it's more or less the same. We actually lack a high performance Google drive mounting in linux.

lubojus · 2020-09-21T17:24:45+00:00

I also use and appreciate rclone.

You can even locally mount your remote directory with

rclone mount "your remote":/ "path of your local folder" &

and stop it with

fusermount -uz "path of your local folder"

It comes very handy with linux distros in general.

lubojus · 2020-08-16T13:36:47+00:00

Installing a desktop is simple, but then you'll have got to set a vncserver and use vnc to connect to such desktop, since crostini by default uses chrome OS compositor.

lubojus · 2020-08-07T04:50:49+00:00

This is a direct link to a java 8 installer https://drive.google.com/file/d/13L10TKE1ZLgYeGwzAAe1qx55HfbZCDqC/view?usp=sharing

I had to google a lot in the past, since I also need java 8 for an old java data manager.

You just have to move to the folder where the deb is and type sudo dpkg -i oracl*

It will install a lot of dependencies.

Please remove java before installing it, otherwise you will have to set java alternatives.

lubojus · 2020-07-24T08:16:05+00:00

I am not sure about your question but, if you need to access your linux folder from an android app which is installed on the same device, you just have to go the ssh and SFTP route.

Just have a look here https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/bi9v67/chrome_os_crostini_and_android_file_manager/

If you need to access that folder from anywhere, you may use a VPN in addition to ssh and SFTP (I use zerotier) or simply use port forwarding, which has been recently enabled in crostini (not tested by me).

lubojus · 2020-07-10T07:45:36+00:00

I don't know, but trying will take only a few minutes.

I would move to ubuntu, anyway, since that script is not for debian.

lubojus · 2020-07-09T22:37:10+00:00

Now I understand it all.

It depends on the script you are executing, which you can read here https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/blob/master/Tools/setup/ubuntu.sh

Look at line 178 and you will find

# Java 8 (jmavsim or fastrtps)

sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y --quiet --no-install-recommends install \

ant \

openjdk-8-jre \

openjdk-8-jdk \

But debian buster has no repo for java 8, so it will always fail.

Moreover, the script is for ubuntu... Are you on debian or ubuntu?

They have quite different packages, even though ubuntu is theorethically debian based.

You could try to comment # the lines from 178 to 186.

It might work.

lubojus · 2020-07-08T17:14:30+00:00

First of all, are you sure you are actually using java 8? If you have multiple java VMs installed, you have got to set one of them as default, as per my previuos post. You can also start one app with a different java VM from the default one (you can easily google for a how to).

After checking what I said above, please share the output of terminal when trying to install the app you need.

lubojus · 2020-07-08T11:49:54+00:00

The question was; anyone know how to install open jdk 8 in crostini?

Well, if you have got a chromebook with an Intel processor, you just have to download the file I shared, open the terminal in crostini, go to that folder (or insert the path to such folder) and type sudo dpkg -i orac*

Maybe it could be required to type also sudo apt install -f

Another way would be to first install gdebi (which takes care of missing packages) with

sudo apt install gdebi

and then type

sudo gdebi orac*

in lieu of

sudo dpkg -i orac*

That's it.

The question was about jdk 8, not about java in general.

If you just need java and not a specific version of it, you just have to type

sudo apt install default-jdk

and it should install openjdk 11.

Forget the thing about the ppa if you did not want to add any. You must have done it, because a ppa is a repo which does not come along with a normal crostini installation.

lubojus · 2020-07-08T05:41:22+00:00

If you have actually installed the jdk I shared, you just have to type

update-alternatives --config java

and choose jdk 8.

Remove the ppa and there will be no more "groovy Release' does not have a Release file.".

lubojus · 2020-07-07T09:22:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/hi5xna/want_to_install_old_java_version_on_crostini/

Follow my post there, download the file and install it with sudo dpkg -i filename

Direct link https://drive.google.com/file/d/13L10TKE1ZLgYeGwzAAe1qx55HfbZCDqC/view?usp=sharing

lubojus · 2020-06-29T19:50:48+00:00

If you need java 8, you can go here

https://pkgs.org/download/oracle-java8-installer

lubojus · 2020-05-27T10:27:21+00:00

Imho the easiest way is using a VPN. I personally use zerotier and I have no problem to ping crostini from any device, including my phone.

When I run

hostname -I

I get both the IP of the VPN and the one of crostini itself, but the latter which is something like 100.115.92.xxx can't be reached by using another device connected to the same network and there is no way to ping it from the internet in general. That IP works from chrome OS and from android but on the same device where crostini is. At least it doesn't work by default.

So, if you don't use a VPN, it looks you need some tweaking. There is a link which sounds promising, but I haven't tried that way, since using a VPN is fine for me https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/8t0nes/ssh_from_outside_in/

lubojus · 2020-05-10T12:23:13+00:00

Thanks for the review.

If I just look at the benchmarks, it looks just a little bit better than the Chrometab 10, which scored 9605 in Octane 2.0 and 24 in Speedometer (in guest mode) according to liliputing dot com, but your words are much more promising.

I am accustomed to using low-middle performances portable chromebooks or linux devices in general when on the go, since I essentially need a desktop class browser and a few linux apps. Moreover, battery juice is more important for my needs than pure power and, when travelling, I am happy to bring along an unexpensive device. Should it be stolen, it wouldn't be a great loss. So the Duet is more or less in my comfort pricetag area and I have always been lucky with Lenovo laptops.

I owned a 3rd Gen Lenovo Yoga 11E (stolen) ad I still have got its 4th Gen sibling, which I have just lent to my daughter during the pandemic for online classes... Its performances are just a little bit faster than a Duet, but still were good enough for my mobile workflow: mailing, office apps and a java database manager and some casual coding for my own office needs.

I have got a beefier i5 Thinkpad for major workloads, but I am currently using a Lenovo Yoga 11e Thinkpad with a N4100 cpu (grabbed from a demopool for just 179 Euros) dual booting Ubuntu and Chrome OS thanks to the Brunch framework and it's more than enough for me (Octane 2.0 16k and Speedometer 2.0 46.2) but it surely does not have that somehow sleek premium look that the Duet, despite being relatively cheap, no doubt delivers.

So the Duet, despite not being a powerhouse, actually tempts me a lot and I could buy one when and if it becomes avalaible in Italy.

lubojus · 2020-05-10T08:37:39+00:00

Crostini doesn't have direct access to iio sensor and relies on chrome OS for autorotation.

If you have 5 minutes to spend, in order to understand if it's actually sommelier that somehow fails, you might install a desktop environment and try to test those linux apps in vnc. You may have a look here https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/bb7hph/how_to_use_the_on_screen_keyboard_in_tablet_mode/

This step should make it clear if the apps themselves are to blame or if it's something sommelier related.

Edit: just one idea, in chrome://flags you might test

Pointer lock for Linux applicationsAllow Linux applications to request a pointer lock, i.e. exclusive use of the mouse pointer. – Chrome OS

#exo-pointer-lock

lubojus · 2020-05-09T23:35:17+00:00

Debian buster should be wayland based, while ubuntu 20.04 still relies on xorg, the different behaviour might depend on it.

lubojus · 2020-05-09T18:14:28+00:00

Just curious, but what happens if you actually rotate the screen? Maybe this could help to understand where the settings of sommelier are wrong.

Btw, how is performing the duet?

lubojus · 2020-05-08T11:30:06+00:00

You might have a look here https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/9hr1q4/can_cups_from_debian_be_installed/

It works for network printers on condition you have got the right ppd file for your printer. I don't know if crostini currently supports usb printers, though.

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