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--- toshiba_chromebook_2 [19.11.2014 07:08] – Pascal Suter
+++ toshiba_chromebook_2 [21.11.2014 14:11] – Pascal Suter
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   * run crouton. at best you first look at the available command line options by running <code>sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -h</code> so you can find what options suti you best. in my case at the time of writing this was <code>sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t gnome,keyboard</code>note the keyboard target. that's needed to get the function keys running.
   * this will install a ubuntu trusty 14.04 lts version with a basic gnome environment. as the script tells you you can now start your ubuntu by typing <code>sudo startgnome</code>
-===== customize gnome =====
+===== customize software =====
-  * you might want to install some applications. i haven't yet bothered to find a minimum list of packets to install for my most preferred environment. however i can tell you that installing the metapackage "gnome" will install lots of programs including all the necessary ones you might already be used to (like gedit, gnome-terminal etc.). however this will take quite a bit of diskspace.. it will also make gnome look pretty as it installs the fonts needed therefore.
+  * crouton installs a very minimalistic gnome desktop and not much else. in order for it to look pretty and to have all the gnome tools you might have gotten used to you need to install additional packages. the easyest way to just get everyting that belongs to it you siply <code>apt-get install gnome</code> but that  takes over 3GB of disk space and includes many games and stuff you probably don't ever need. \\instead you can run <code>apt-cache depends gnome</code> to see what packages get installed and then work your way from there to compile a list of what you really want installed on your system and what not. here's the list i've compiled: <code>sudo apt-get install nano gnome-core desktop-base network-manager-gnome cheese file-roller gedit gnome-color-manager gnome-documents gnome-nettool nautilus-sendto seahorse totem vinagre alacarte avahi-daemon gimp gnome-media gnome-tweak-tool inkscape libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc libreoffice-impress sound-juicer tomboy shotwell tracker-gui xdg-user-dirs-gtk cups-pk-helper gedit-plugins gnome-applets gnome-shell-extensions gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly totem-plugins libgtk2-perl dia-gnome thunderbird synaptic update-manager-core thunderbird-gnome-support bash-completion vlc ubuntu-restricted-extras ttf-ubuntu-font-family software-center remmina</code>this will use about 1.6GB of your precious disk space :) but it includes some more productivity stuff and VLC.
-  * i also recommend to install update-manager-core for future release updates (do-release-upgrade).
 ===== autostart crouton =====
 [[https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Autostart-crouton-chroot-at-ChromeOS-startup|source]]
   * make sure your root filesystem is re-writeable.. see beginig of this page.
   * now download [[https://gist.github.com/DennisLfromGA/6443733|crouton.conf]] and put it in the /etc/init/ folder
+  * make sure the parameters are matching your needs and installation
+  * touch a file called crouton.init in your downloads directory.
+===== simulate middle mouse button =====
+on a normal trackpad you would simply click the left and right mouse key at the same time to simulate a center key klick, but the chromebook has only one button. so this leaves us with the mac solution: tap the pad with one finger for a left click, two fingers for a right click and.. you might guess it.. three fingers for the center click... you can enable this by opening a command prompt and running this command <code>synclient TapButton3=2</code> however, this command needs to be executed each time you start gnome.. so here's how to do that automatically: <code>echo "synclient TapButton3=2" > ~/touchpad_settings.sh
+chmod +x ~/touchpad_settings.sh
+</code>use of course your own user name instead of psuter. now add touchpad_settings.sh to your startup appilcations through te settings gui.
 ===== sidenote: updating ubuntu =====
-if you need to update to a new releae simply use do-release-upgrade as youwould in any ubuntu installation.then log off and in chrome os run the crouton script to update its side of the installation: <code>sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -n <chroot_name> -u</code> where the chroot_name is uusally equal to the currently installed release name.
+if you need to update to a new releae simply use do-release-upgrade as youwould in any ubuntu installation.then log off and in chrome os run the crouton script to update its side of the installation: <code>sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -n <chroot_name> -u</code> where the chroot_name is uusally equal to the currently installed release name. in oder to keep it that way even after the upgrad we need to rename the chroot name by running <code>sudo edit-chroot -m <newrelease> <oldrelease></code>
-in oder to keep it that way even after the upgrad we need to rename the chroot name by running <code>sudo edit-chroot -m <newrelease> <oldrelease></code>
 ====== OpenVPN with config file ======
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 script
-  openvpn --config /home/vpn/ovpn.conf --daemon --cd /home/vpn
+  openvpn --mktun --dev tun0
+  openvpn --config /home/vpn/ovpn.conf --daemon --dev tun0 --cd /home/vpn
 end script </code>