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
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> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
Yes, Iâve 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 <wild.ideas@gmail.com> 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>
-- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
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.... 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 -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
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> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
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