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Chromebook Pixel
The Pixel is fully supported by crouton with only a few minor caveats you need to keep in mind.
When issuing the command to build your chroot, you will want to add -t touch
to your command. If you are adding a desktop environment target such as Xfce or Unity, you can combine it with touch via something like -t touch,xfce
.
Be aware that until your favorite window manager supports high-DPI displays, results may vary. Users are having good luck using Xfce with a few minor tweaks:
Support for dpi changes are quite spotty... but this way you get to keep text sharp.
- In Xfce, right-click the desktop and choose Desktop Settings.
- In Icons tab, increase the icon size. Recommended: 72.
- Close the window.
- Right-click the desktop and choose Applications > Settings > Appearance.
- In the Icons tab, select Humanity, Humanity-Dark, or Tango. GNOME icons are not resolution independent.
- In Fonts tab, enable Custom DPI and set it to 150, or adjust to your liking.
- Close window.
- Right-click the desktop and choose Applications > Settings > Panel.
- Use the slider to increase the size of the panel. Recommended for ease of touch: 72.
- Close the window.
This should give you an interface normal humans are capable of working with. If you have any more tips, please share them!
Trades the extreme definition for a more standard resolution that works perfectly with any window manager. You can use the included setres
script to change your resolution to something custom. The script does not do sanity-checking, so you may end up with a blank screen and have to kill the chroot from Chromium OS if you give a strange resolution. Once you find a resolution you like, you will need to run it whenever you start the chroot. Some examples:
setres 1920 1280
setres 1440 960
setres 1280 850
The display settings dropdown does not work for custom resolutions.