Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

I recall using WAP gateways back in the 90s and early/mid 2000s for my candybar phone, Handspring Visor, and Zaurus.
I would be surprised to find a way to process, lets say pre-digest a complicated website faithfully enough to do all of the government and commerce stuff we want; or even just visit a mainstream or pop news site get the crappy 30cm of NoScript links I need to click to authorize.
but there simply has to be a way to clean up or make a formatted static page proxy we could have running on an r-pi or other server we jack into an ADSL line or hosted virtual instance of Debian or favorite flavor.
The web is borken not the N900; I would love to help build an easy r-pi and downloadable OS image as well as a setup to give us the adapter we need to get back the full function of our N900, form youtube, to torrents, to web browsing; the tools are there but we need to move the work off of our phone if we can to fix the bloat.
Realistically I should be able to use a TI-83 and a serial to BT adapter with maybe an attiny to convert the logic to surf the web, but web devs got lazy and bloat everything by offloading to dozens of outside links to render a site perfectly for your screen to the point where we need to chew that crap til it takes 8 cores at 4ghz and a late model GPU to just view the modern web at normal speed.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

COMPLETELY agree with you Mr. Tool
or do you go by your first name Bike?
Or isitalloneword Mr Biketool?

Anywho...
big humongous+1 to all you said...

And...concerning the internet being borkened ...
I agree as well...

In fact cue the the "borking" theme music !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-gDQDYcTA

"Bork! Bork! Bork!"

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

Changed the One tab extension to another which makes chromium to use only one tab. Now if I just would find a way to start from chroot terminal chromium as a normal user and to its own window without needing to start desktop.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

So reading instruction page for easy debbie sorted out how to start chromium to it's own window from terminal. From xterm typind debbie or debbie-sue and when the chroot environment opens typing chromium. But it still has the problem that there is no text input available. Now I found from some place online that deleting ibus would do the trick but that I would not want to do and not sure what is really the case here. And another is that chromium should open a little smaller window so that the top bar of Hildon would be in use. If someone want's to guide me through this I would appreciate.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

Hmm... I'm not sure about the keyboard input thing but maybe you can/should/would like to try this.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

I'm not willing to start to mess around with lxsession configures cause at the moment the chromium has text input when started inside lxde. I do not want to miss that too. I tried using the "Set Deb HW Keys" script given with a launcher but it did not help. FN is the (Hah! Googled it to be sure cause don't want to show as a newbie and found out that pressing long makes the same as using key with FN! Well how about that! Has been so difficult to get 1 and other blue characters far left!) is the left arrow and RETURN is the same as ENTER, right? So I tried first launching the script and then opening chromium both from debbie and debbie-sue as a normal user to own window and then trying typing and using FN and ENTER but no text input.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

Reason why I do this is partly this. I want to use whatsapp with my N900. First messages already sent. But with LXDE desktop it is a bit too sluggish.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

If the device would bare 1150 overclocking and would have swap tweaks I think this chromium would be a winner. But I drive -97 Nissan Micra with 1,3L engine so I am used to not moving too fast.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

Still not got keyboard working on window mode. Or it is working: it writes everything to chroot terminal instead of chromium! Have tried different xbindkeys workarounds as istructed on easy debbie instruction page, tried to with script giving xbindkeys to all applications, tried starting debbie with different modes: debbie, debbie-sue. Also noticed while was gonna post image with whatsapp that window mode does not have access to home folder and mydocs.

Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
 

Still not sure about the problem but maybe you can try another thing: change the lines in debbie and debbie-sue files that says UBUSER=$USER to UBUSER=$UBUSER or something like that. But be aware that doing this you will get root access so be careful what you are doing. As always... :)

Background: when I was playing with easy ubuntu years ago I noticed that I did not have keyboard input in terminal when chrooted into LXDE. The above hack solved that for me. But maybe that isn't the case in connection with your chromium input problem...