So You Bought a Pixelbook
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Initial Setup
First, follow the Quickstart
instructions here
.
You now have two things set up -- a VM called termina
and a container inside of that VM called penguin
. This VM and container are "special" -- files within penguin
are accessible via the Files
app and any GUI applications installed inside of penguin
will be accessible via the launcher. Other than that, penguin
is just a regular debian stretch
LXC
container.
To access a shell inside of pengiun
(which is inside of termina
), simply launch the Terminal
program. This starts the termina
VM (if not already started), starts the penguin
container (if not already started) and drops you in a shell.
Configure Terminal
Annoyingly, the terminal bell is enabled by default. From within the Terminal
program, press ctrl + shift + p
. Here you can disable the bell, change your font size, etc.
Set Up Crosh
To create new VMs and containers you use crosh
(Chrome Shell). You can launch it from inside of Chrome
with ctrl + alt + t
. Launching crosh
in a Chrome tab isn't ideal, though, because you can't do things like switch windows in vim (e.g. ctrl + w + l
) without accidentially closing the tab in Chrome
. To solve this, install two extensions:
This will give you a launchable program called Crosh Window
that runs crosh
in its own window. From inside Crosh Window
, you'll want to press ctrl + shift + p
again to disable the bell and configure it to your liking.
Fix Some penguin
Issues
The penguin
container is where you want to do most of your work because it is tied into the rest of Chrome OS. That said, there's one particular oddity it has -- your user does not, by default, have a known password. This is a problem if you want to change your shell (among other things). To fix this we'll connect to the container from crosh
as root.
First, launch Crosh Window
and connect to the termina
VM.
vmc start termina
Once connected to termina
, connect to penguin
as the root user using the provided run_container.sh
script.
run_container.sh --container-name penguin --user root --shell
Now, you can change your user's password
passwd <username>
Back in the terminal
app, you should be able to change your shell.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install zsh chsh -s /bin/zsh
Getting a Working tmux
Google has done some special things
to the Terminal
app and penguin
to keep the text sent to the shell secure. Unfortunately this doesn't play nicely with the provided version of tmux
in debian stretch
. To solve this we need to install the backports apt repo and install the newer version of tmux
.
Add the following line to your /etc/apt/source.list
file:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
Now install tmux from the backports repo.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -t stretch-backports tmux
Install a GUI linux app
From inside of penguin
, run:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
Now you can launch Libre Office
directly from your launcher, no extra work required. Note that you can move files back and forth between Chrome OS and the linux container via the Files
app (you'll see a special Linux Files
section on the left).
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