Howto change default term (CTRL+ALT+T) to bash

[ngharo]

I'm lazy and wanted access to bash without typing 'shell' in crosh
(told you, i'm lazy). The window manager can be configured as to
which command to run upon CTRL+ALT+T. To edit this, look at /sbin/
window_manager_session.sh.

Inside you will see XTERM_COMMAND. I simply copied the existing cros-
term script it's pointing at and placed it in /usr/local/bin/bash-term
and then edited that file to exec /bin/bash instead of /usr/bin/crosh.

You must have / mounted RW to make changes to these files.

Since we're lacking a decent text editor, I used sed to do the edits.
Kinda whacky.

$ mkdir /usr/local/bin
$ cat /sbin/window_manager_session.sh | sed -e 's/\/usr\/bin\/cros-
term/\/usr\/local\/bin\/bash-term/' > /tmp/window
$ cat /usr/bin/cros-term | sed -e 's/\/usr\/bin\/crosh/\/bin\/bash/'
> /tmp/bash
$ sudo cp /tmp/window /sbin/window_manager_session.sh
$ sudo cp /tmp/bash /usr/local/bin/bash-term
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bash-term /sbin/
window_manager_session.sh

Peace

[Ryan Afdahl]

This didn't work for me. Maybe it's the returns in the code put into
this thread. Could you email me your lines?

~ Ryan

[Wei Hu]

As for editors, there's qemacs preinstalled. You can also copy busybox
that provides vi.

[J.M]

I pulled a 32-bit busybox binary from a Ubuntu box and this worked for
me.

However, I had to remount /dev/sda1 with exec so that the binary would
run from /mnt/stateful_partition/home/chronos/. Most directories in
the filesystem are mounted noexec (probably for a good reason).

Is there a place on the filesystem that is mounted with exec on
reboot? Or is the only solution here to simply re-mount /dev/sda1
every time you want to run your own binaries?

[ngharo]

On Dec 23, 10:02 am, "J.M" <john.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I pulled a 32-bit busybox binary from a Ubuntu box and this worked for
> me.
>
> However, I had to remount /dev/sda1 with exec so that the binary would
> run from /mnt/stateful_partition/home/chronos/. Most directories in
> the filesystem are mounted noexec (probably for a good reason).
>
> Is there a place on the filesystem that is mounted with exec on
> reboot? Or is the only solution here to simply re-mount /dev/sda1
> every time you want to run your own binaries?

I put user executables in /usr/local/bin (had to create directory,
already included in $PATH).

The list broke lines on commands in the OP. A full line starts with
$.

Also, there is a typo. the window manager file has dashes not
underscores.