14 DAY TRIAL // More and more Chrome OS feature surface these days, and today we're glad to inform our readers that Chromium evangelist at Google François Beaufort shared details about two new upcoming enhancements.
The first and most exciting feature that's coming soon to a Chromebook near your is the ability for Chrome OS to preserve window positions across displays even after the external displays were disconnected and reconnected. The change it already in the Chrome OS Dev channel, so you can try it out right now by enabling the chrome://flags/#ash-enable-persistent-window-bounds experimental flag.
"In other words, if you had window A on external display, and window B on internal display, all windows would migrate to internal display after disconnecting from external display; upon reconnecting back to external display Window A will move back to external display and Window B will remain on laptop display, explains François Beaufort.
Future Chrome OS releases to ship with floating virtual keyboard by default
The second feature that we'd like to share with you today is that all future Chrome OS releases will be shipping with a floating virtual keyboard by default. This change is now available for public testing in Chrome Canary and Dev Channel and could come in handy whenever you need to type something on your Chromebook when in landscape mode (check out the GIF attached below to see in action).
The floating virtual keyboard can be easily scaled and dragged anywhere on the screen, so that anyone can use it, even if you have smaller or larger hands. If you want to try it out, you'll have to enable the chrome://flags/#enable-floating-virtual-keyboard experimental flag, which will activate the virtual keyboard. Then click the vertical 3-dots button and select "Floating mode" instead of "Docking mode."
