Re: [orca-list] Orca on Chrome books

[Vojtěch šmiro <vsmiro seznam cz>]

I am very interrested in this. Is some way to use Chrome OS on normal 
computer and how much will it cost? Or is the system free?

Thanks a lot.

Best regards

Vojta.

mattias via orca-list napsal(a):
> yes it have worked before
>
> but if you install mate and orca the crostini will crash so you have 
> to restore it
>
> Den 2020-05-06 kl. 18:17, skrev Marc Sabatella:
> > No, you don’t need to remove ChromeOS or install Linux separately at 
> > all, although you are welcome to if you want and know how. To be 
> > clear though I am just talking about the normal Linux container 
> > feature within ChromeOS (aka crostini).  I also had success using 
> > orca several years ago running Linux within ChromeOS via the 
> > “crouton” scripts.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:26 AM mattias jonsson 
> > <mjonsson1986 gmail com <mailto:mjonsson1986 gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     but you have to remove chromeos and install a normal linux first
> >
> >     Den 5 maj 2020 18:47:13 skrev Marc Sabatella
> >     <marc outsideshore com <mailto:marc outsideshore com>>:
> >
> > >     I have Orca running on my Chromebook, it works well other than
> > >     the issue I mentioned the other day of the default shortcuts not
> > >     working because there is no Caps lock, Insert, or Numlock.  Only
> > >     thing special I had to do to get it working for me was set the
> > >     environment variable QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON, otherwise
> > >     Qt based apps (including MuseScore, which I help develop)
> > >     wouldn’t be seen at all.
> > >
> > >     BTW, I got some great help here and elsewhere with respect to
> > >     getting MuseScore working better with orca, and ended up
> > >     developing a script but also implementing some changes within
> > >     the app.  Today we’re finally releasing an alpha version that
> > >     incorporates those changes, so soon we’ll officially be able to
> > >     say we support Orca.
> > >
> > >     Marc
> > >
> > >     On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:37 AM Erik Heil via orca-list
> > >     <orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org>> wrote:
> > >
> > >         Hello
> > >         if this has been discussed before, I’m sorry. However, we’re
> > >         just reading one of the messages, and it was mentioned, that
> > >         you can run orca on your Chromebook. Was wondering, how this
> > >         all is accomplished? Well if anybody can point me to list
> > >         documentation, I would appreciate that. I do know some
> > >         basics however. Such as there are some Basic packaging tools
> > >         such as dpkg and tools, but not sure if that is even
> > >         relevant here. As far as Cristini, the last I knew, sound
> > >         was not operational within the virtual environment,
> > >         apparently though, this has been fixed.  My particular
> > >         Chromebook is a Lenovo yoga for, with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB
> > >         of storage. This particular model, also has a touchscreen,
> > >         but not sure if Orcutt even works with such things. But,
> > >         just wanted to give you a little background here.
> > >
> > >         —Erik
> > >
> > >         Sent from my iPad
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> > >
> > >     -- 
> > >     Marc Sabatella
> > >     marc outsideshore com <mailto:marc outsideshore com>
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