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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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Using the Chrome commands API in Kiosk Mode

I am writing a Kiosk Mode Chrome App that responds to a keyboard shortcut. The best way I have found to do this uses the Chrome commands API. manifest.json {..., "kiosk_enabled": true, "kiosk_only": false, "commands": { …
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Can I connect to Google Cloud VM's through Chrome OS?

In documentation I found this example: ssh -i KEY_FILE -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o CheckHostIP=no -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no USER@IP_ADDRESS But in Chrome OS in console I can't run ssh-keygen - therefore I not have KEY_FILE. Any solution?
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How to enable camera and microphone in packaged application for Chrome OS or Chrome extension?

I'm testing scenario where I call a hangouts web page in separate window but application doesn't have access to microphone and camera - buttons are red and message says that "Hangouts can't use the selected microphone/camera". I have included in…
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Sync chroot folder with Google Drive or Dropbox in Chrome OS

I have crouton running on a chromebook 11 with ubuntu precise in it. I am looking for a way to sync files in some folders in the ubuntu chroot with Google Drive. I am thinking I can create a link between the mounted chroot partition and a sync'ed…
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Understanding Chrome App navigation

I am currently beginning to look at creating Chrome Apps and have followed a few of the basic tutorials now. I am happy with the basics so far except for one thing. All the sample code and tutorials only seem to have one html file in the package,…
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Chrome OS Development on a Mac

Google just announced the open source release of their Chromium/Chrome OS product: Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users? I'm working on a macbook running snow leopard, and I want to start…
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Chrome Sockets API Behaves Differently on Chrome OS (vs. Ubuntu, Windows)?

I have a sample Chrome packaged app which uses the Chrome sockets API to perform DNS service discovery. The heavy lifting is borrowed from the example here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-samples/tree/master/mdns-browser I just use…
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How to access the file system in chrome os

Is it possible to have an extension read/write to/from the local file system in chrome os? Thanks in advance?
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How can I resolve the 'connection refused' error in seaborn's sns.load_dataset() function?

While searching for this issue, I found this- Connectionrefusederror: [errno 111] connection refused is an error message that the Python “socket()” function will show when it cannot connect to the server due to an error or setting from your client…
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How do you create a Chrome OS emulator?

What are the steps needed to create a Chrome OS virtual device in Android Studio (or from the command line)? I see that you can choose "Chrome OS Device" in the Device Manager, but when I choose that I get an error that says "No system images…
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Kiosk or 'Receipt' Printing in Chrome OS/Chrome OS Flex

We have an application we currently run in Chrome browser on Ubuntu and Windows using PrintNode. We'd like to run our application ChromeOS to move away from Linux and Windows, but our the printing of our app requires no user interaction. It appears…
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How to edit Custom.css file in Chrome OS?

I have found several interesting articles describing css tweaks to the Chrome OS operating system, but none of them add information how the files are actually editted. I have attempted to open the terminal and use every unix editor i could think of…
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Run ChromeOS emulator on Apple silicon

I'm trying to test my app through ChromeOS emulators on MBP M1 laptop. But the available emulators are either 32bit or 64bit and they crash on launch. I've followed this doc for adding the emulator images. Is there any workaround or any other…
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Flutter on Chromebook

I tried to get flutter running on my Lenovo Duet Chromebook. Unfortunately, I got $ flutter doctor -v ~/apps/flutter/bin/internal/shared.sh: line 228: ~/apps/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dart: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error $ uname…
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Is there a way to detect USB devices in an Android application on ChromeOS?

The device must be in USB Host mode to use the UsbManager class. However, when checking if the app is in USB Host mode using packagemanager.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_USB_HOST), it always returns false. Apparently, USB Host is an…
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