Set the time for Do Not Disturb in Preferences, Turn on from 7:00 AM to 6:59 AM for example.
4 Change background problematically
Use IFTT recipe to download the latest top landscape pictures from a prominent Internet forum on photography. Use Automator to watch folder on Dropbox and set a new Desktop background.
Long before it became an actually built in option as it is now, it was only possible to retrofit a full scale Ubuntu installation on Chromebooks. These are my notes on installation gotchas for a complete developer environment on Ubuntu, including Zsh, Oh My Zsh, and Dropbox - all running via chroot Chromium OS. There are now better ways of accomplishing the same thing, but back then (just a few months ago) it was the only reliable way.
Crouton is a sorta acronym for open source project Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment.
crouton is a set of scripts that bundle up into an easy-to-use, Chromium OS-centric chroot generator.
Crouton has a major shortcoming for security minded users, and as such, (in my view and the view of crouton devs themselves,) folks would do well to take advantage of new improved security features in Chromium OS.
The devs recommend Crostini:
Crostini is an official project within Chromium OS to bring the Linux shell and apps to the platform in verified mode with clean integration, multi-layered security, and all the polish you expect from Chromium OS proper.
That said, pressing on:
Install Crouton
via crosh after turning on Chromebook’s Developer Mode.
Update a chroot:
sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -u -n xenial
Mount a chroot and enter the ‘shell’:
sudo enter-chroot
Start Xfce via the startxfce4 host command:
sudo startxfce4
Linuxbook Mods
Install Sublime Text 3 - sudo apt-get install sublime
locale issues launching Sublime Text “On Linux, please reference your distribution’s docs for information on properly setting the LANG and LC_CTYPE environmental variables. As a temporary work-around, you can launch Sublime Text from the Terminal with q:LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 sublime_text” locale issue - Set up a clean UTF8 environment Solution: This generally means you haven’t properly set up locales on your Linux box.
sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8sudo locale-gen by itself did not work- would result in fail in next command
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
(See also man locale-gen.)
ruby - using rbenv - installing 2.5.1
set as global rbenv global 2.5.1rbenv rehash - Rehash rbenv shims (run this after installing executables)
ERROR: Ruby install aborted due to missing extensions - Try running apt-get install -y libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev to fetch missing dependencies. Colors in terminal DID NOT DO - in favor of just cloning repos
An error occurred while installing eventmachine (1.2.7), and Bundler
cannot continue.
Make sure that gem install eventmachine -v '1.2.7' --source
'https://rubygems.org/' succeeds before bundling. SOLUTION: Prepending bundle exec to your command may solve this.
Installed GCC, restarted, and was able to both bundle install and bundle exec jekyll serve
Installing ZSH via apt-get, making default shell Zsh
ALT + q = ä (+ SHIFT Ä)
ALT + p = ö (+ SHIFT Ö)
ALT + y = ü (+ SHIFT Ü)
ALT + s = ß
ALT + SHIFT + U + 1E9E = ẞ (capital ß)
ALT + z = æ (+ SHIFT Æ)
ALT + 5 = €
ALT + SHIFT + c = ¢
ALT + SHIFT + 5 = £
Misc:
ALT + r = ë (+ SHIFT Ë)
ALT + j = ï (+ SHIFT Ï)
ALT + n = ñ (+ SHIFT Ñ)
ALT + w = å (+ SHIFT Å)
Remember I posted about a few choice static site generators (SSG), built on the deliciously named JAM stack? Well, you’re in for a treat… just recently on website of repute Hacker News, (which I consume more often than not via the always informative Hacker Newsletter,) I found out about an awesome page that ranks all the open-source SSGs on GitHub, and another one that is a huge spreadsheet of hundreds of them!
Seriously hundreds of them
StaticSiteGenerators.net - “The definitive listing of Static Site Generators — all 458 of them!”
The most powerful feature here is the sorting projects by date created/updated. Listing by language is nice too.
The webapp StaticGen ranks all the open-source SSGs on GitHub filtered by Stars, Forks, Issues. Pretty darn neat.
The field of SSGs really has come a long way and we are certainly spoiled for choice when it comes to serving up what the Web does best, which is deliver streams of plain text to the face as quickly as possible.