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Chromebook Pixel

dnschneid edited this page Mar 13, 2013 · 24 revisions

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:

Option #1 change dpi settings

Support for dpi changes are quite spotty... but this way you get to keep text sharp.

  1. In Xfce, right-click the desktop and choose Desktop Settings.
  2. In Icons tab, increase the icon size. Recommended: 72.
  3. Close the window.
  4. Right-click the desktop and choose Applications > Settings > Appearance.
  5. In the Icons tab, select Humanity, Humanity-Dark, or Tango. GNOME icons are not resolution independent.
  6. In Fonts tab, enable Custom DPI and set it to 150, or adjust to your liking.
  7. Close window.
  8. Right-click the desktop and choose Applications > Settings > Panel.
  9. Use the slider to increase the size of the panel. Recommended for ease of touch: 72.
  10. 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!

Option #2 change resolution

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.

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