To do that, note that there are no magic cookies (i.e. You can also run ssh remotely and bring up windows from other servers, which is what I was hoping to do. Note that with two window managers running, I don't get twm menus but that is okay since I only want basic X window and SSH functionality. They can be minimized, maximized, and moved around with ease. I ran 'twm &' so the X Windows applications could be managed. The picture above show the xterm session isn't attached to a window manager. It is possible that someone might make a project to use the native non-chroot environment, but that would require making packages just for native usage and why bother when you can piggy back off of the work done for Ubuntu? It is possible to compile the binaries so they use /usr/local, like other operating systems do, but I just needed those two functions without switching windows to a whole new environment. Many other applications are expecting config files in /etc which would use the Chrome OS /etc which doesn't support them. This setup is only so I can use SSH and X Windows to remote machines. Note that I named my chroot crouton not precise, so you will have to use the right name for you in the variables and also note that the chroot environment is not encrypted. You can view my bash_profile changes here. Then you'll need to set the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables to point to the libraries needed for twm and xterm. Add Tom's Window Manager (twm) window manager since the Chrome OS window manager won't manage X Window applications other than the Chrome browser itself. I am using Hexxeh's build in a virtual machine. Getting an X Window application displayed alongside the Chrome browser is possible as seen below.įollow the instructions to install Crouton on your Chromebook. This is possible and easy to do but you will find issues along the way.
Considering that Chrome OS uses Linux and X Windows, I should be able to display X Windows on the same display as the Chrome browser. I tried the script and really didn't want a second environment to switch to and from. The popular Crouton script, which enables you to run Ubuntu Linux alongside Chrome OS can be used simply to run secure shell ( SSH) and X Windows and this can all be done without the virtual display switching keystrokes CTRL-ALT-F3.
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