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LabVIEW on Chromebook

I'm currently running LabVIEW 2020 SP1 on my 2015 Chromebook Pixel.

To get it installed, I enabled the Linux Development Environment and replaced Debian with CentOS.

Overall, the experience is fair. I can edit and execute VIs. I scaled up the graphics to deal with the high DPI screen.

What's really annoying, though, is the context help flickers uncontrollably. I also can't pin the palletes (or they flicker like the context help). However, they're perfectly accessible through the right-click menu.

 

I suspect the issue has something to do with X11-forwarding and redrawing, but I haven't seen much discussion about this on the web, and I don't have a simple application to reproduce this.

Should I install it in a container on a native Linux machine to try to replicate the issue?

Marshal Horn
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I'm not sure I can replicate this on a normal (non-chromebook) setup.

I installed LV2020 in an OpenSUSE VM running on Arch Linux, no issue with flickering whatsoever.

I was going to try installing it on a docker image but I couldn't figure out the Wayland forwarding.

Maybe I can try Qemu software emulation?

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