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Paul DeBruicker

Pharo on a chromebook?

Forgive my ignorance but does anyone have a recipe to run Pharo on a Chromebook? Without having to install another OS. And also not with SqueakJS.

Just on ChromeOS?

Seems like its not possible. Just wanted to double check.

thanks
Paul

tbrunz

Re: Pharo on a chromebook?

Hi Paul,

It *is* possible! I've got it running on one of my Chromebooks, a Pixelbook
model. (I gave my 2015 Pixel LS to my wife; I've yet to try it on that
one.) See the attached image.

You'll likely need to install a Linux container, which is how I got it to
work. (I didn't try to get it running in the native Linux OS, which I
believe is a modified Gentoo.)

You can have an icon associated with it; if you do, you can pin it to your
icon tray and launch Pharo that way -- which is what I do. (You should be
able to see the icon in my image.) I have a script that generates a
'.desktop' file with an icon, which is how I think I got this to work. (I'm
about to rewrite the script; the first attempt was a hack extracted from a
script suite I wrote, and Pharo deserves better.)

One thing you'll want to do is correct for the 4K display. I have a script
that automates enlarging the pointer arrow at
https://github.com/tbrunz/pharo-support (which also has the above-mentioned
script), but I just finished it and haven't yet tested it on a Chromebook
install.

-Ted

<http://forum.world.st/file/t372161/Pharo-in-Chromebook_2019-0127a.jpg>

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Guillermo Polito

Re: Pharo on a chromebook?

Yes, I’ve heard some other people doing similar stuff.
I put in cc Olivier, maybe he can share a bit more if he has time :)

Guille

> El 1 abr 2020, a las 1:40, tbrunz <[hidden email]> escribió:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> It *is* possible! I've got it running on one of my Chromebooks, a Pixelbook
> model. (I gave my 2015 Pixel LS to my wife; I've yet to try it on that
> one.) See the attached image.
>
> You'll likely need to install a Linux container, which is how I got it to
> work. (I didn't try to get it running in the native Linux OS, which I
> believe is a modified Gentoo.)
>
> You can have an icon associated with it; if you do, you can pin it to your
> icon tray and launch Pharo that way -- which is what I do. (You should be
> able to see the icon in my image.) I have a script that generates a
> '.desktop' file with an icon, which is how I think I got this to work. (I'm
> about to rewrite the script; the first attempt was a hack extracted from a
> script suite I wrote, and Pharo deserves better.)
>
> One thing you'll want to do is correct for the 4K display. I have a script
> that automates enlarging the pointer arrow at
> https://github.com/tbrunz/pharo-support (which also has the above-mentioned
> script), but I just finished it and haven't yet tested it on a Chromebook
> install.
>
> -Ted
>
> <http://forum.world.st/file/t372161/Pharo-in-Chromebook_2019-0127a.jpg>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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kmo

Re: Pharo on a chromebook?

In reply to this post by Paul DeBruicker

Google have an official linux environment that you can switch on in ChromeOs
Settings. Should allow you to switch easily betweeen ChromeOs and Linux.
<http://forum.world.st/file/t368903/Screenshot_2020-04-01_at_10.png>

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tbrunz

Re: Pharo on a chromebook?

In reply to this post by tbrunz

I just verified that my 'pharo-adjust-cursor' script does work for Pharo
Launcher as well as Pharo images that are installed in a Linux Container on
Chromebooks that have 4K displays (e.g., the "Pixelbook" models).

If you download the bash script from
https://github.com/tbrunz/pharo-support/blob/master/src/pharo-adjust-cursor.sh
to the directory that contains 'pharolauncher' and run it, it will update
the 'pharo-launcher' script inside.

Thereafter, when you run Pharo Launcher, or launch an image from Pharo
Launcher, the cursor on 4K Chromebook displays will look normal size.

-t

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