I have found that chrome from ChromeOS runs quite nicely on my debian sid linux machine. It will most likely work just as well under other distributions. I have also found that it is the best browser experience I have had under linux to date. This particular set of binaries I built on December 2nd 2016 from the chromium source repository. It consists of two tarballs chromium.tar.gz and usr_share_chromeos-assets.tar.gz. The first contains the binaries from the build while the second is the speech and tools frome google voice. You can download them with curl or wget from my web site https://reisers.ca with: wget https://reisers.ca/chromium.tar.gz wget https://reisers.ca/usr_share_chromeos-assets.tar.gz You will need to have xorg and it's recommended extra packages installed as well as the xinit package. I am pretty much strictly a linux console user so getting these binaries to work under gnome or other X windows managers I cannot help with. They run almost completely as a standard user with root permission only necessary to install the voices and the chrome-sandbox. Unpack as root or sudo the voices with: sudo tar zxf usr_share_chromeos-assets.tar.gz Unpack the chromium tarball anywhere you'd like to keep it in your home directory tree with: tar zxf chromium.tar.gz Next set the root permissions on the sandbox with: sudo chown root.root chromium/chrome-sandbox sudo chmod 4755 chromium/chrome-sandbox I have written two small scripts startchrome and newchrome to start up the chrome browser. Startchrome is a very much stripped down version of startx that I use to call xinit with only enough parameters to start the browser with no other window manager or desktop. The second newchrome is a one liner to call startchrome in the current directory and start a log file for debugging. You can place the newchrome script anywhere you like in your search path providing you modify it to point at the startchrome script wherever you unpacked the tarball. You could also just make a symlink to newchrome from someplace in your search path. I.E. I put all my scripts in a bin directory in my home tree and have a symlink in there to start chrome. ln -s ~/chromium/newchrome ~/bin/chrome When you first start it up it will just go quiet because by default chrome-os doesn't start up talking. It also takes a while to load. To start the chromevox access type control-alt-z and shortly thereafter you should hear a tic-toc noise from a low pitch to a high pitch. Once you have chromevox running it will continue working until you hit control-alt-z again to toggle it off. You can start and quit chrome as often as you like and the it will come up talking each time. It does take a while to actual start talking after starting the program. I typically leave it running a console and just move to that console when I want to browse the web or look something up. Chrome and X are very greedy about taking over the keyboard so your normal speakup review functions will not work. You can leave the chrome console however with control-alt-f1-fn to get back to a console where your review functions work just fine again. You can leave chrome by hitting control-shift-q twice quickly. The Windows key is the chromevox key and you use it in conjunction with other key combinations to provide it's review functions. I shall indicate the chromevox key as crv hereafter. A few key combinations to get you started are crv-r to read from the cursor to the bottom of the page. crv-ctrl-left-arrow to move to top of page and crv-ctrl-right-arrow to move to the bottom. Crv-up and crv-down to move up a line and down respectively. crv-right to move to the next object and crv-left to move to the previous. Crv-dot or period will place you into chromevox's option menu with a list of the currently available review functions. You can move from object to object on a site with the tab and shift-tab key combinations. You can move from each tab or window with control-tab and control-shift-tab. You return to the parent tab/window with alt-left-arrow. If for some reason chrome doesn't cooperate right off the bat and either stay running or start talking there is a chrome.log file created in your home directory which usually provides the information needed to figure what is either not installed or preventing progress. Sometimes it can be a bit difficult to figure what it is telling you but I've found you can figure it out with a little consideration. Often it is because it can't find some library it is expecting to provide a necessary service. I'm sure there are piles of things I've forgot to put in this document and there's even more I don't know yet about chrome but so far it's the only browser I've found to work on every site I've tried. I still haven't figured out how to get it to play streams that are started from playlist files like m3u or pls but I'm sure it can be done. There are loads of chrome extensions that can be installed and I'd be very interested in hearing what folks find to do various tasks. I've found simple-rss is a not bad rss reader but there may be better ones available I haven't found yet. Good luck and let me know how it goes getting this set-up. You can contact me at kirk@xxxxxxxxxx to let me know what you think. -- Well that's it then, colour me secure! -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1 mQENBFYV5DMBCAC060mbsnLhGPjnFkf0R0p+7MxcfxlOuy5wc8y59y9ZNF0RZD1s OTEsDih4vD9YJ3zA78VsBUDK47aiDWduh3nHzYN2ZSuxAQ9u7qPqphCG0jPagTU8 p7+Ceeya4I5odWtq+Nkf1UrHB7KKEtexphStSwUG5Bhi4bb84YinmX/a3I+OGV1D by4QBSdPvSuDw0qFkt/ucLyEwv4L6lDjoH2GF+tnCew4SJtliJFvA1k7NpWO6HW9 aWtBxfYU85ccZKBSE25y+9KprUCncVTpaVs3FztCWG0dQRXHvEbV+Damp/IBd9Jv HZX7azqbERUa/FjPTIlZhhI9VtaZaFfJSH+5ABEBAAG0HUtpcmsgUmVpc2VyIDxr aXJrQHJlaXNlcnMuY2E+iQE+BBMBAgAoBQJWFeQzAhsDBQkADS8ABgsJCAcDAgYV CAIJCgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRAHTEsk7UQUUoeuB/wIqsdLCfDrSvr3qg7rKBDg ru44OMuRit6hbdWFZjmxccCdjeNhBJRVd5wrEqjj5YoqQAhmacXaEB0DO/TZlDgo kUfJM7lrtQD4mYU9GVtrzJxCJoBUyeMVnMJt39F91tBu0mYM6oI/dv81dwxIv++4 hj55TZ4GG7DGYAy4LwNb+noNbivgOFHlnfNq8nxhZkHbJdYKP+sptZOL5sagmBQZ iS9STB54g/U7Jtt1Fe+JwDmbxQhbSHa9JuWn0xZ8CtYhrz06xSqZl5vpMlak3eW2 x6m6IcqZfyuI2K7W/9BCgcsQyYzufO4Gk9KyPNISskX6pFBLuNxIH6hdfxSYYm9y uQENBFYV5DMBCACtMyhHog5MR6eQUPTx7fWH5ntkgCtmWvQp4lcKj0HHbteDWglS NVbWKWEk9PAKA4UeQVUH4vOhTRhAPpuDUavLdp2tDtT7ZBVh91B3AWIM6+7fIvyU 2uYt1q/CNjga8RllXBT7mW2zHGEYQFIkBJvqlU0PN1HlxRZIbSSEb+zQuVAd+ph3 kt/oZon3ZbNmKg+arsYMmKkYJ0REwKQib7h5Xl31aK74XmWBp2Ky+lopsJSP8wpH AfC71h4s3LDm8ADHF1Ns4KuGZdLTugr8uiPm5kEJFGes1uYKy8R7OTFko0NEuJkv STfpPYnTU2qDCJBH08zZErI/6YBIlSsCSde3ABEBAAGJASUEGAECAA8FAlYV5DMC GwwFCQANLwAACgkQB0xLJO1EFFKAmgf/d3dk1/HgmF8rmvYVru/hJvmIpmiLqPl5 bYSwdZeU+k82qp3xACM2yMJhOh89SgHsaaqQAE1qo5rAJcSG7/+7M/kzf4u/WM/E unXDtLkbzi5Zl+gjoikrfOhgF0NmuGdlrOme8a6ue7+iE4XLAo0/jhVlh45O6Iq0 0DGyeFr22cR3jZj4wRmPw5zj4r/sWc06UfquVAEMmfIvJMaGYvwBI+TU6gI8MjLe VDY0vay/nQ79fXSLQmYEvjwKXIavQu9c8TFt0z9EDdoIMx69ZunqZuYQInxaT+cL i9zhihMGz4XA1q3blLNX3I0jWzAa23ZchI7htc3kfxp1jWqrGyGEIg== =nrPH -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
