i3 on Samsung Arm Chromebook?

asked 2013-03-14 20:01:10 +0000

ianboo
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updated 2013-03-16 12:07:41 +0000

Michael
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Hey there fellow i3 users,

I am sitting in front of a shiny new Chromebook Series 3. I am wondering whether it would be smart to try using i3 on it. I managed to chroot into Ubuntu (via a script called crouton, very easy!), basically everything is in place for i3. LXDE is provided by default.

There is no up-to-date i3 build for arm devices, am I right? Are there any arm-compatible builds? Is it wise to build it from source on a untested(?) architecture? (As a not sooo advanced user)

Thanks for any Tips in advance! Jan

edit: A raspberry pi is running just in front of me and I installed i3 months ago. Sometimes things are extremely easy. i3 is a simple apt-get install i3 away. That will get you version 4.1. The question I tried to formulate yesterday is then, whether it is advisable for intermediate users to compile it from source, or if I missed a repository providing a newer version. Currently I am wondering, what size the toolchain will take, as the chromebook is short of disksize (16gb ssd).

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answered 2013-03-14 22:03:33 +0000

sur5r
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updated 2013-03-18 11:36:54 +0000

As i3 compiles fine on Debian for ARM (see http://buildd.debian.org/status/packa...) there shouldn't be any problems compiling it on the Chromebook.

It's also not an untested archictecture (re. i3) as I've seen reports of it being used on the Raspberry Pi.

edit: I'm now able to build ubuntu-armhf packages as well. i3 for raring/armhf is already in my resposity, the rest will follow. Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

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It says "precise". But to be more precise (pun intended), it sports the chrome os arm kernel and is therefore somehow not really 12.04. As far as i understood. Anyhow: Thank you very much! I updated to 4.5 using your repository (precise build) and it works just fine. Thanks!

ianboo ( 2013-03-18 22:36:25 +0000 )edit

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answered 2015-02-19 19:32:24 +0000

fczuardi
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Crouton project has a wiki and in there a page with instructions on how to use i3 in crouton, the path after github's url is dnschneid/crouton/wiki/i3 below a copy of the instructions:

Install X11: sudo sh -e ./crouton -t x11
Enter the chroot: sudo enter-chroot -n chrootname
Install i3: sudo apt-get install i3
Add exec i3 to ~/.xinitrc: echo "exec i3" > ~/.xinitrc
Launch i3 directly from the crosh shell: sudo enter-chroot xinit
Create an alias for starting in i3: add alias starti3='sudo enter-chroot xinit' to your ~/.bashrc