General talk Latest Topicshttps://osxlatitude.com/forums/forum/211-general-talk/General talk Latest TopicsenRunning windows applications on ChromeOShttps://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/12947-running-windows-applications-on-chromeos/ Thanx to some CrossOver for chromeos (actually for Android) we can now run Windows applications - its not perfect - but its fun to play around with.

Sadly, it was pulled from the play store a while back by Google - but grap the APK and you should be good to go.

 

Decided to try out Microsoft Office 2007

 

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]]>12947Sun, 01 Mar 2020 16:03:09 +0000How to Disable ChromeOS Window Animationhttps://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/12472-how-to-disable-chromeos-window-animation/ Morning,

Lets face facts, as nice as ChromeOS might be - the animations is a big fail from Google - this half-wit implementation is utterly slow and when you have alot of tabs and android apps open - extremely lagging.

So.. lets kill it fire.. sortof anyway - ironicly - Google is here for the saving.

Orginal link: https://appuals.com/disable-chromeos-window-animation/

First of all - You need to be in dev mode (face facts, doing anything cool with your chromebook requires that) - and before you can get into that - you will properly need to reset your device - meaning.. DO BACKUP.

Anyway, once you are in dev mode, its fairly easy.

1. Popup a shell: CTRL+ALT+T
2. Type: shell (to open a shell)
3. Type: sudo su (to be come root)

Now, we need to modify a file call chrome_dev.conf which is located in ETC, but changing that might cause it to be overwritten on a firmware update.. so lets make a copy of it and do a mount.

Type this:
cp /etc/chrome_dev.conf /usr/local

mount --bind /usr/local/chrome_dev.conf /etc/chrome_dev.conf
echo '--wm-window-animations-disabled' >> /etc/chrome_dev.conf
restart ui
exit

This should effectively kill most animations and make your chromeos feel alot faster.

//Leon
 

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