Unity on Chromebook - Awesomeness - but a few questions

[xerxes2985]

I just finally went through every step and got Precise Pangolin with unity running on my Samsung ARM chromebook. - Fantastic! Works 95% flawlessly with the programs I use and have tried to run.

I do have a few questions, nothing major.
#1 - The "snap to" feature seems not to work? Any thoughts?
#2 - Any issues with Gnome3? I like Unity, but I like gnome as well
#3 - If I want to always launch in Gnome3, how can I do this?

Thanks

[dnschneid]

Sweet!

1. What is the "snap to" feature?
   2+3) Gnome3 should work; install/upgrade with the gnome target and run startgnome.

[xerxes2985]

Thanks man! great work on this by the way, I previously had Raring Ringtail installed on a 2 GHz intel core 2 duo and 4 GB of ram.. .and I have to say, the Chromebook is much faster at handling Ubuntu, I am thoroughly shocked.

When you drag a window to either side of the screen it re sizes and snaps to the right or left side.. if you bring it toward the top it maximizes... I might be off a few versions though (maybe it was 12.10 that has it?)

[dnschneid]

Yeah, the version in 12.04 probably doesn't have it. Unfortunately, due to missing GLES extensions, the version of Unity in anything later than 12.04 won't run on ARM, at least for now.

Gnome should run in whatever version of Ubuntu you install, so you may want to install -t gnome with an -r raring chroot (or -r saucy if you're feeling adventurous).

[mitchellurgero]

In ubuntu their new thing is Unity, I'd use that honestly, its pretty stable on my Intel based chromebook (Acer C720)