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Terminal programs for Chromebook?
I have a chromebook, Pixel Slate, and it actually has a linux shell but it's lacking in a LOT of features like being able to cut and paste and at the end of the day I'd honestly just like something like Termius that works.
Termius is installed, but they aren't compatible with the screen resizing or the tablet screen, at least not on my Pixel Slate. I get stuck on things like trying to accept the fingerprint as it's off screen and I can't click OK.
Anyone using anything on Android Tablets or Chromebooks that is good and can resize the screen or go full screen on different screens?
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Debian
why not just enable the linux container and use that? By default it's debian but you can go with different distros if you do a little work. Though I haven't tried using stuff like fingerprint/etc. in it. Just used some linux apps and of course ssh into other systems.
For the Chromebook, enable the linux container and install minicom using apt..
For Android, I'm using JuiceSSH and/or TermBot with OpenKeyChain, depending if I need to use my Yubikey or not.
@Not_Oles might be able to chime in here
I gave my slate away but before that, I used the Linux container feature and that was a perfect solution to me. Not like those annoying terminal chrome extensions.
Occasional Termius user on android phone; I don't have any problem with screen resizing ... however, on my observation: if I had bad connection from cellular provider ... something weird would happend ... therefore I personally disabled options: Autocompleted, Pinch-to-zoom, Received/Expanded-notifications, Screen-shots/recording and any gesture options.
... Maybe you can use online
websshsuch ssheasy.com ... either you selfhosted or trusting to 3rd party seviceI was having problems with cut and paste and things like that on the Linux container, maybe I was fat fingering the track pad I'll have to try again.
Cut and paste worked for y'all on the Linux container on the slate?
Guess I should have specified that I don't have a slate. I really wished google released a true pixelbook 2 instead of the slate/go. I do know that the linux container has worked perfectly for me on my current Thinkpad C14 (what I'm using to reply) and the various other chromebooks I've tried/used (both intel and arm). I do recall a while ago that selecting text in the shell didn't automatically copy (was on the dev channel at the time) but ctrl+shift+c worked just fine to copy it and was eventually fixed with an update. Regular ctrl+c/ctrl+v works with gui linux apps just fine.
It did but I’m drawing a blank on how. Might have been a 2 finger click on the trackpad on the terminal, or like a control + shift + v.
I remember control + c closing the terminal chrome extensions, god that was terrible.
Hi @Oldschool!
I'm not sure what exactly you mean when you say resize the screen with a Chromebook. I am using a Lenovo Duet 5, which is a tablet that runs ChromeOS just like any Chromebook plus also runs Android Apps and has a touchscreen. The Diet 5 has a folding, magnetic keyboard cover. I use everything full screen all the time and switch from tab to tab or window to window as I want to look at different items that I have open.
That said, from the terminal app (the default Debian Linux container thingy), if I call a graphical app from the command line terminal, the graphical app pops up in a new tab either in phone proportions of full screen.
For all the graphical apps including those launched from the Debian container command line I can change the size and shape of the tab. That works great, but I don't do it hardly at all. My main use for changing the size and shape of the tab is when I want to see phone proportions.
The Duet 5 works great for me. I love the OLED screen's bright, clear colors. The Diet 5 is small, light, fast, and cheap by comparison to a Macbook. Good battery, work all day no problem.
I haven't tried the Duet 5 with external monitors, so, if that's what you mean by resizing the screen, I can't comment.
Works here pretty well.
Hope this helps! Best!
Tom
P.S. My use of the Chromebook is either as a web browser or else as a terminal to escape the Chromebook via ssh to a server. I really haven't paid much attention to the Chromebook's features other than Chrome browser, the High Contrast Chrome Extension, the Accessibility reverse color setting and ssh out of the Debian container. As much as I like the Chromebook, I could switch to something else pretty quickly since, basically, I don't do much of anything on the Chromebook itself.
In the linux container/shell, you have to use ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v though it does have the putty like feature where selecting text in the shell should automatically copy and then right clicking to paste it. Hehe, I remember ctrl+c getting me in a shell when I first started using linux and trying to copy/paste stuff within the shell to make a command or trying to copy something from a program that was running just to kill it!
Now, it's just like breathing and I don't even think about it.
Note: I hope we're not confusing the linux container shell/terminal with some extension/android app or the ctrl+alt+t shell you can get in developer mode (you get a very limited shell if you're in normal mode). Ever since the linux container was released, I haven't enabled the developer mode on my chromebook. I was happy to get rid of the annoying beeps at boot or sitting there to quickly hit ctrl+d to skip it.
Damn I think you found my problem. I'm using the developer mode shell I think. I'll have to check tomorrow if it's the container or the developer mode. Very limited.
You can install let say Ubuntu and access terminal there