Work in progress.
- Put the Pixel in developer mode.
- Power off the Pixel, then hold down
esc+refresh+poweruntil the recovery screen appears. - Hold down
ctrl+duntil the confirmation screen appears and then pressenter.
- Power off the Pixel, then hold down
- Crosh Window
- Open a crosh window and type
shell, thenchromeos-setdevpasswdto set a password for chronos.
Based on documentation from https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
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Download the Crouton script from http://goo.gl/fd3zc
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Open a crosh window and type
shellto get into bash. -
Run this command:
sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r wheezy -t core,cli-extra -e -n cli -
Wait 30 minutes or so for this to finish.
Update: Start with a setres command
setres 1680 1120
See all the resolution options with crouton here: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Chromebook-Pixel
Open the start menu, search for "DPI" to get the font menu and set the font DPI to 200%.
Right-click on the task bar and click on height to adjust the height.
Open the Window Decorations setting. Click on Configure Decoration, and set the button size to "huge". Fix the stupid thing where KDE doesn't allow you to disable the trackpad tap by installing a special config app...
sudo apt-get install kde-config-touchpad
...then...:
mkdir ~/bin
touch notap.sh
chmod 777 notap.sh
vi notap.sh
...and...
#!/bin/sh
synclient MaxTapTime=0
synclient MaxDoubleTapTime=0
...finally add:
/home/$(`whoami`)/bin/notap.sh
to /etc/rc.local before the "exit 0;" line.
Once installation is complete run the following once:
sudo enter-chroot startkde
...and then enter the following when you want to start Ubuntu (now, and after full machine reboots):
sudo startkde
Otherwise, you can flip to Ubuntu by hitting: CTRL + ALT + FORWARD (arrow) then CTRL + ALT + REFRESH. Flip back to Chrome OS by hitting: CTRL + ALT + BACK (arrow)