On the up side, the online Google Docs directory is also mounted by default and we can copy paste between the local and the online storage like we do between two regular directories. However, the odd thing is, when you paste something, it doesn’t immediately show up sometimes - you gotta hit the refresh button. That reminds me, keyboard shortcuts like F5 to refresh a page, or Alt+F4 to close a window, don’t work. Things like Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, etc., work as expected inside the file manager. By default, it mounted all my hard disk partitions, and somehow always chose to open the first available hard disk partition after launch - see the vmlinuz file, and var, tmp, etc, directories? While the OS saves everything in a folder called Downloads (like the browser does by default on a regular desktop OS too), I wonder why it doesn’t default to this directory - after all, the Downloads directory here is complimentary to the user home directory on other distros. Would have been nice if, at least, it was able to fetch pictures from the user’s Picasa account.Ĭoming to the file manager, it has a minimalistic and clean UI as you can see in the following screenshots.
But it turns out we’ve to be happy with the preset defaults, with no way to set one of our own. Either it should ask the user during system setup for a time zone, or intelligently guess from location access based on IP address or something similar.īy the way, right-clicking the desktop pops just a single option - “Set wallpaper”. Guest login launches Chromium in incognito mode.īack to the date and time, I think it’s very silly for the system to default to UTC – 0700. Interesting deal with the sign out link is it takes you back to the display manager, and this time shows an option to login as guest.
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Clicking on the system tray gives you options to system settings, screen brightness and volume controls, Bluetooth settings, date & time (clicking which takes you to the date and time configuration setting - which otherwise is hidden under system settings as “advanced settings”), the battery power indicator, besides links to shut down, sign out and lock screen. The extreme right side of the panel has what we typically call the system tray - with the clock, keyboard type, Wi-Fi signal, and battery indicator icons. To launch a new window you can press Ctrl+N as you would on a regular desktop OS. The panel, on the other hand, has a Chromium icon on the extreme left to launch a new window, or open a new tab if the browser is already running. The window manager even supports features like snap to edge. Maximising a window hides the panel under it.
The Chromium window only has a maximise and close button (no minimise). The desktop UI pretty much looks like what we are traditionally used to - a panel at the bottom and the rest is place for windows. No worries, I attached a USB mouse and things were normal.
However, it made no difference since moving the cursor from one place to other turned out to be really slow (no improvements after the setting the “touchpad speed” to the maximum from system settings). Maybe it only works with official Chromebook touchpad hardware nonetheless all the other three worked across the OS. Besides left click using touchpad tap, none of the other tests were successful on the RV509. Right after login it opens the Chromium browser with a welcome message which shortly redirects to a touchpad tutorial page - tap for left click, two-finger right click, two-finger scroll, and drag and drop.