Popular Post Erwin S. 5 Posted April 13, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2017 Logged into my account on a Chromebook and see a ChromeOS download link. Does anyone have this working? If so, what needs to be done? Thanks. Erwin 5 Link to post Share on other sites
bafinneg 1 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Also been looking for Chrome OS support. Excellent news if this is going to be supported! Link to post Share on other sites
Erwin S. 5 Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 Don't get the sense that it's high on the priority list. Hopefully, more people will chime in and will get some momentum. Link to post Share on other sites
Jman 0 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 I am also interested in a ChromeOS laptop as server. Link to post Share on other sites
dragon788 2 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 For this to work you probably need to use ChromeBrew and/or LinuxBrew to get the required packages in order to build Synergy from Source. This will require your Chromebook/Chromebox to be in Developer mode and a little bit of work setting up the aforementioned software systems. I'm actually looking to do the same since I use Synergy at work on a daily basis and would love to be able to use my personal Chrome device for personal business alongside my work machines. Link to post Share on other sites
Synergy Team Nick Bolton 407 Posted September 5, 2017 Synergy Team Share Posted September 5, 2017 Hello, Please could you email us? [email protected] I posted something earlier about forum support... https://symless.com/forums/topic/3756-were-improving-our-tech-support/ Thanks, Nick Link to post Share on other sites
MatrixMan 0 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 @dragon788 I tried your strategy. Here are some notes: - The synergy code needs curl.h, chromebrew will fetch you the curl binaries but not the headers  - You can get curl source here https://curl.haxx.se/download.html, after running `cmake` I had to make this modification: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42666288/curl-cross-compiling not sure if your chromebook will be the same - The synergy code also needs Xlib.h, which comes with chromebew package libx11 - The synergy code also needs Xtst, which doesn't appear to be in chromebrew. It's code lives here: http://t2sde.org/packages/libxtst.html but `/bin/sh configure` says "configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile use --host."  I'm still churning on this last one, but if I overcome it, I'll be sure to report back here.  Link to post Share on other sites
dragon788 2 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 You could look at the package compile options on Gentoo or Arch to see if you can find the right set of flags since Chrome OS is built on a Linux kernel and uses emerge and portage of Gentoo origin. Link to post Share on other sites
MatrixMan 0 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Thanks for the tip. It turned out being something else--I hadn't disabled `noexec` in the local filesystem, which caused the configure script to fail and give a misleading message. Fixed by: `sudo mount -i -o remount,exec /home/chronos/user` I wound up fulfilling the dependency tree, which included building quite a few packages: curl fixesproto libxi recordproto synergy-core xext xfixes xtst Unfortunately, once I had synergy built on my chromebook, I ran the integration tests and most of them failed: [ PASSED ] 5 tests. [ FAILED ] 12 tests, listed below: [ FAILED ] ArchInternetTests.get [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.setActiveGroup_pollAndSet_groupIsZero [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.setActiveGroup_poll_groupIsNotSet [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.setActiveGroup_customGroup_groupWasSet [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.mapModifiersFromX_zeroState_zeroMask [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.mapModifiersToX_zeroMask_resultIsTrue [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.fakeCtrlAltDel_default_returnsFalse [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.pollActiveModifiers_defaultState_returnsZero [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.pollActiveGroup_defaultState_returnsZero [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.pollActiveGroup_positiveGroup_returnsGroup [ FAILED ] XWindowsKeyStateTests.pollActiveGroup_xkb_areEqual [ FAILED ] CXWindowsScreenTests.fakeMouseMove_nonPrimary_getCursorPosValuesCorrect I was hoping that hunting down the dependencies and getting it built in chrome would put a dent in this, but I'm getting the feeling that having it work well here will require a bit more integration work than that. Link to post Share on other sites
dragon788 2 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Yeah, the problem will be that Chrome OS has moved away from Xorg and is using a UI layer called Freon which has Wayland roots and I'm not sure Synergy supports that yet. Link to post Share on other sites
Thibaultmol 0 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Yeah, recently got an Acer Chromebook Spin 13, would love for Synergie support Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Guys, Currently, that's not actually a feature we support, but it is a feature request that I'm happy to pass along to the development team. Â Link to post Share on other sites
Reinard 0 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Any update to this? Adding my voice here for this feature. Maybe through PixelBook's Penguin VM? Link to post Share on other sites
dragon788 2 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Sadly ChromeOS uses Wayland and not Xorg, so even if you install it you'd probably only be able to partially interact with one app, and possibly not even that because ChromeOS uses a tool called sommelier to let Xorg apps launch into Wayland. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Hello, Currently, we do not have any plans to support Android/Chrome OS devices but maybe we will do it in the future. Link to post Share on other sites
Kelvin Tran 142 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 (edited) I'll lock the topic now. Final verdict: until announced later on down the line, Android/ChromeOS will not be officially supported releases. If you need ChromeOS, you can try Linux emulation. Be warned, however, that will take work. Edited July 16, 2019 by Kelvin Tran Link to post Share on other sites
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