Chrome Remote Desktop Connects From Your Android Device To Linux

Google recently announced the beta unloose of the Chrome Remote Desktop for Linux. It allows you lot to remotely connect to a Linux motorcar from within the Chrome browser. Judging from the early on comments inward the Google production assistance forum, setting upwardly the Chrome Remote Desktop on a Linux motorcar is soundless rather quirky for for certain configurations. This postal service details my sense of successfully installing in addition to setting upwardly Chrome Remote Desktop to connect from an Android device to a Debian Wheezy machine.

First, install in addition to setup Chrome Remote Desktop on the Debian machine. Then, install the Chrome Remote Desktop app on the Android device.

Install on Debian

Install Google Chrome.
The official Debian Wheezy repository includes the Chromium browser, which is the unbranded, open-sourced version of Chrome. To avoid whatsoever compatibility issues, download the official Google Chrome browser bundle straight from the Google production page. Then, install it equally follows:
```
 $ dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb  
```
Add Chrome Remote Desktop to Chrome.
- Open the Chrome browser.
- Visit the Chrome Remote Desktop app on the Chrome Web Store.
- Click the +Free button, in addition to then Add.
Configure virtual desktop.
- Create script to start virtual desktop.
  Create the file /.chrome-remote-desktop-session, which contains the ascendance to start your preferred desktop environment. You may await upwardly the ascendance inward the corresponding desktop file located inward the /usr/share/xsessions directory. For instance, if the desktop is GNOME, await upwardly the Exec ascendance inward /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop.
```
 $ grep '^Exec=' /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop Exec=gnome-session 
```
  Note that gnome-session - the text subsequently 'Exec=' - is the ascendance to start the virtual session. Insert the ascendance to /.chrome-remote-desktop-session equally follows:
```
 $ truthful cat >  /.chrome-remote-desktop-session exec gnome-session 
```
- Change covert resolution (optional).
  By default, the covert resolution of the remotely-connected virtual desktop is 1600 x 1200 pixels. To alteration the default resolution, append a describe to /.profile. For instance, to larn inward 1024 x 768,
```
 $ truthful cat >>  /.profile export CHROME_REMOTE_DESKTOP_DEFAULT_DESKTOP_SIZES=1024x768 
```

Install Chrome Remote Desktop daemon.

Download the 64-bit Debian bundle for Chrome Remote Desktop from the Google Chrome Remote Desktop app page.

Install the Debian package.

My get-go drive failed due to dependency problems: unopen to required packages were non pre-installed.

 $ sudo dpkg -i chrome-remote-desktop_current_amd64.deb  ... dpkg: dependency problems forestall configuration of chrome-remote-desktop:  chrome-remote-desktop depends on xvfb-randr | xvfb; however:   Package xvfb-randr is non installed.   Package xvfb is non installed.  chrome-remote-desktop depends on xbase-clients; however:   Package xbase-clients is non installed.  chrome-remote-desktop depends on python-psutil; however:   Package python-psutil is non installed. ...

To resolve the dependency problems, run apt-get -f install in addition to and then re-install the package:

 $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading bundle lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading dry reason information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The next extra packages volition hold upwardly installed:   python-psutil xbase-clients xvfb The next NEW packages volition hold upwardly installed:   python-psutil xbase-clients xvfb ... $ sudo dpkg -i chrome-remote-desktop_current_amd64.deb

H5N1 daemon named chrome-remote-desktop is created.

 $ sudo chkconfig --list |grep chrome chrome-remote-desktop  0:off  1:off  2:on  3:on  4:on  5:on  6:off

Authorize Chrome Remote Desktop.
When you lot run the Chrome Remote Desktop app for the get-go time, you lot volition hold upwardly asked to grant permission for the app to produce its job.
- Open a novel tab inward Chrome, in addition to larn inward chrome://apps/.
- Click Chrome Remote Desktop icon.
- Click Continue, in addition to then Accept.
Enable remote connections.
- Click the Get started push clit inward the My Computers box.
- Click Enable remote connections.
  If the Enable remote connections push clit does non seem on the screen, construct for certain that the /.chrome-remote-desktop-session file is created.
- Enter a PIN.
The Debian motorcar is directly cook to cause got remote connections. You should consider its hostname - panther - listed inward the My Computers box.

If you lot come across whatsoever connexion error, delight test the log file - /tmp/chrome_remote_desktop_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_xxxxxx - for clues on what mightiness cause got gone wrong.

Install in addition to connect from Android

Install the Chrome Remote Desktop app from Google Play onto your Android device.
Open the app on the Android device.
Click the hostname - panther - to remotely connect to it.
Enter the PIN for authentication to the remote host.
H5N1 virtual session is created.