Joshua Pelton-Stroud jpelton-stroud

Pixelbook or Pixel Slate Setup

Partly updated June 2023

General caution: Chrome OS is a secure OS by design, but this has at least one key consequence. If you change your Google account password, you will still be required to enter the old password the next time you access each Chrome OS device. Devices are encrypted with that password, so the OS needs to decrypt using the old password then re-encrypt using the new one. If you forget your old password you will lose access to your Chrome OS device data. As always, make sure you keep backups up to date.

Fast User Switching

If you have multiple Chrome OS accounts (Say, work and play), you can quickly sitch between them without logging out:

If you can't get X11 or Wayland GUI Linux apps to start anymore on Chrome OS, try the following.

In the Terminal app, this will show the status of your systemd user services/units:

systemctl --user

If [email protected] and [email protected] show a failed status, the following worked for me:

sudo ln -s /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/sommelier.elf /usr/bin/

	Horizontal layer	Examples
	Business logic	Application-specific logic, domain logic, validation rules
	Persistence	WebStorage, IndexedDB, File System Access API, HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL, Firebase, Meteor
	Messaging	WebRTC, WebSocket, Push API, Server-Sent Events
	I/O	Web Bluetooth, WebUSB, NFC, camera, microphone, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor
	Presentation	DOM manipulation, event listeners, formatting
	User interaction	UI behaviour, form validation
	State management	Application state management, application-specific events

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