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Questions tagged [google-chrome-os]

This tag is dedicated to questions about Chrome OS.

Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.

One of the popular usage is on Chromebook - http://www.google.com/chromebook/

For more details: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

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Extract files from Chrome OS / Chromebook recovery image

My Problem: I am trying get hold of the official Chrome WideVine CDM plugin for an ARM architecture. My Understanding So Far: Given ARM-based Chromebooks can stream Netflix (and Netflix uses the WideVine CRM plugin), I am lead to believe a Chrome OS…
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Touch not working on android apps running on ARC

I have a laptop running windows 8.1 with a touch enabled screen. I am using arc to run apk on the laptop. The touch works fine on ARC welder but after launching apk, the touch event does not work on app's screen. Just the mouse event works. I have…
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Can I enable mouse/desktop-like text selection behavior in an Android app?

I'm using ARC Welder to turn my Android app into a Chrome OS app. Most of it works perfectly, except that text selection with a mouse behaves like it would on a touch device, requiring long-clicking or double-clicking on words, and then dragging the…
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Crosh Shell as default New Tab page

I run crouton on my chromebook and use the Crosh shell pretty frequently. Is there any way to specify Crosh as the default New Tab on a Chromebook? I already attempted using the Crosh extension location as the New Tab URL…
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How to get the "open as window" option in my own apps

When I click the "Details" link in chrome://extensions many apps (but not all) have the "Open as window" option available in a drop-down menu: How do I enable this drop-down menu for my own apps?
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Transparent ChromeOS window

The new hangouts extension from Google is able to make a transparent chrome.app.window somehow. Whilst trying to debug their code I found a lot of clear references to this, but I was not able to figure out how to do this myself. So, how do you make…
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Is Chrome OS German the correct default voice on Chrome OS?

I am using the Web Speech API for text to speech and need to be able to determine the default voice. To do this I call speechSynthesis.getVoices() and enumerate the voices to find the one where default is true. I am in the US an use the US English…
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Chrome App - Let the system open a file

I have a chrome packaged app that uses the chrome.fileSystem API to access a user's directory. It displays all files in the directory and the user can open and edit text files in the app. It displays all files even not-text files (e.g. images) and I…
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How to develop an Android App that can run on Chrome OS?

Recently, Google released some Android apps that can run on Chrome OS. How can I develop apps that will do the same? Is a specific SDK different from phone, tv, glass necessary? Does the source code of an existing Android app need to change? Do any…
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Running j on Chrome OS

I'm trying to run jconsole on Chrome OS. In both the chroot of Ubuntu that I have installed, and the normal Chrome OS shell, I receive the following error on both the 32- and 64-bit versions: -bash: ./jconsole: cannot execute binary file I'm not…
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How to create kiosk compatible chrome packaged app

I have a Chrome Packaged App which I wish to deploy and use in a Chrome OS Public Session Kiosk (Not Single App Kiosk). From here: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3017014?hl=en Public Session Kiosk apps All hosted Chrome apps and some…
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Error installing Meteor on linux x86_64 chrome os

I am trying to install Meteor on the HP14 Chromebook. It is a linx x86_64 chrome os system. Each time I try to install it I run into errors. The first time I tried to install it the installer just downloaded the Meteor preengine but never…
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Chrome API for adding external cloud storage to a chromebook that isn't drive

I'm trying to find out if it is possible to add other storage options to chromeOS. By default you get your internal location (downloads), your google drive and your connected SD cards and external drives. In the Files App you can see all of them in…
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is it possible to make a packaged app to burn disc(CD, DVD, BD) for chrome book

I`m beginner for chrome packaged app. I want to make a app to burn DVDs, BDs, CDs on chrome os , is it possible? I heard chrome os prevent burn disc because of patent, is it right? Is there any method to burn disc ? and How can I get handls for SATA…
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chrome.socket UDP API useless on Chromebook?

I am working on a Chrome packaged app that requires multicast communication over the local network and is specifically targeting Chromebook users. The 'Network Communication' documentation on the packaged app site is outdated and the chrome.socket…
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