Google Riffraff Credentials

So, I guess this is what happens when the Google user, the credentials, are different than the ones needed on a website.

Chromebook Lusting

This past week I've researched a lot about getting a Chromebook, no, not the little one; but a powerful one, the C100 is really under powered.
Looking for the Samsung Chromebook Pro, the Asus Chromebook C302 and, yes, maybe the one, the Pixelbook.
Leaving price aside, and just for the sake of lust and more lust, the only thing that is really stopping me is how close, how unfriendly to customization Chrome OS is.
The hardware of those laptops is amazing, specially the Samsung Chromebook Pro and the Pixelbook, (doh!)

The Current Chrome OS Desktop

Wow, the folks at Google did a major change with their Dock.
Pretty, pretty good.
I just hope Chrome OS would allow you to configure mouse cursor icons...
Anyway, I can dream all that I want.

Chromecast No Audio For You!

As expected, the Chromecast Audio Experiment finished without success...

Was sort of expecting that for Linux, even tho I'm running Chrome, but what a hell... Chrome "syncs" ok with the Chromecast Audio, but nothing happens, sometimes it even crashes the whole Chrome (not only the synced tab).

But, I was more optimistic when it comes to casting from a Chromebook... I thought that the thing being an official Google lappie, running on its own Chrome browser... You know the drill, thing might be smoother...
Anyway, exactly the same problem, it syncs ok, but it doesn't reproduce any music at all (strangely you can hear the volume indicator pip when you scale the volume up or down, but nothing else.)

Spiked OCD

I've just realized this... The little Flip has a missing rubber tip, the one on the right side of the keyboard.
Looked over all the previous Flip C100 posts, and is missing right form the first post.
Damn, I can't un-look that now! My little Lappiebook has a chipped tooth!
Damn, that shit drives me nuts!

To Dev & Write And Back Again

Well... The little Flip is back on the reservation.
That is, got it back under (full) control, even turned back from the Developer Mode.
The experiment I did to customize the cursor icons on Chrome OS went nowhere at all.
I'm pleasantly surprised as how easy got to be to get out and back onto the Google/ Chrome OS reservation.

Small potatoes? Big cursors! (II)

Ok, this is no news, I'm a schmuck, I know that already, but nevertheless, I can't believe I'm not able to customize my mouse cursors icon on Chrome OS.
I know, I know, it is not a big deal, etc. etc. etc But, what a hell, I want to be able to do such a stupid thing w/o having to do all sort of stupid crap on my box.

I went the same route, the same pain and trial and error passage, when I was using Os X circa Snow Leopard, (damn, man! That was nearly 8 years ago...)
Anyway, it even seems like it is harder to accomplish something like that on Chrome OS.
A real shame, since I find the hardware amazingly sexy and cool, specially the Asus Chromebook C302, not to mention the PixelBook.

Mouse Cursor Icons on the Chromebook

Yesterday moved my Asus Flip to the Developer Mode.
The idea is to customize the damn mouse cursor... So far it was useless, I failed miserably on the endeavor.

As always, all of this is with the sole purpose of getting rid of the dam I-Beam cursor, guess you could say that I'm on a crusade, since I've been doing this on every single OS I get my hands on.
On the chromebook, the cursor icons are stored on the directory:

/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/chromeos/cursors/

And the index.theme for the icon set is located on the directory:

/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/index.theme

With the contents:

Inherits=chromeos

What I've tried to use my custom cursors, so far was to create a directory on the $HOME for the user chronos, and place the cursor files there; tried using the directories ~/.icons/ and ~/.cursors/.
So far, the damn thing simply refuses to work, that is, it keeps using ChromeOS default mouse cursor icons.

32 When I Want It

Well this is strange...
I was under the impression that Chrome doesn't run on 32 bits boxes...
On Linux you can't install Chrome on 32 bit, you have to make do running Chromium.

Chrome OS: Configure Mouse Pointer

It turns out you can't.
You're stuck with the default ones,
So this means that once again, I'm stuck with the fucking dreaded I-Beam... It drives me the fuck nuts, besides, now I'm older and that damn cursor is harder to see.

Chromebooking

A new addition to the "collection" a used Flip C100; the idea is to use it to everything work related, specially when on the road.
Will see how this goes.