

From there, you can click the “Install” button to install the software. Once you have the file, you can double-click it to open it in the Ubuntu Software Center. deb file from the Chrome Remote Desktop website. To install Chrome Remote Desktop on Linux, you first need to download the. Chrome Remote Desktop is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chromebooks. You can use it to remotely control your computer, access files, and even run programs. I haven’t spent any time looking into it, just thought I would post some feedback.Assuming you would like an introduction to the article: Chrome Remote Desktop is a free tool that allows you to remotely access your computer from another computer or mobile device. They both present a black screen which terminates after a couple min. (X) (default) Launch the default XSession (Note that some session types may not support running within Chrome Remote Desktop and on the local console simultaneously.) Select a session to launch within your Chrome Remote Desktop environment. I am then presented a dialog with the instructions and following two choices (difficult to illustrate without a screenshot, hopefully you can see what I’m trying to show):

From the chrome browser I navigate to “” and choose my Linux environment from the list, and enter in the PIN. However, I can’t get the remote desktop to come online from the browser. The install was successful, no errors, warnings or issues. The VMWare instance works perfectly and I went to install chrome remote desktop as in the article. I thought I would leave a comment on my experience as I attempted this from a Linux install on VMWare. To allow remote computers to connect to your desktop, click on the Chrome Remote Desktop extension on the extensions bar or simply enter the address. It also creates a group called, chrome-remote-desktop. Hag 08 09:34:17 amos systemd: Started LSB: Chrome Remote Desktop service. Hag 08 09:34:16 amos systemd: Starting LSB: Chrome Remote Desktop service. Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/chrome-remote-desktop generated)Īctive: active (exited) since Thu 09:34:17 EAT 43s agoĬGroup: /system.slice/rvice systemctl status chrome-remote-desktop rvice - LSB: Chrome Remote Desktop service chrome-remote-desktop_current_bĬhrome remote desktop installs as a service, rvice and is set to run upon installation.

When you add the Chrome Remote Desktop extension, download chrome remote desktop package which provides the required host components and install it as follows.
