#How to open vnc viewer chrome install#

Sudo apt-get install tightvncserver ssh openbox -y Open a terminal on your Linux computer and type in the following to install the necessary software: These instructions should work on Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivative distributions. Secure Shell app in the Chrome Web Store. While it still needs to have some theming done and it's menu configured, I have a working desktop. After installing it and configuring things, I connected and to find a working Openbox session. Not certain how other desktop environments will respond in this situation because I have not tested them, but be aware of this possibility.Īfter doing a little thinking, I decided to use Openbox as a window manager on the remote session due to it's lightweight nature. It seems you can't run two concurrent XFCE sessions at the same time.

After connecting and not getting a working session though, I discovered in the logs that 'xfce4-session: Another session manager is already running'. I configured the xstartup script that VNC uses to launch a XFCE session. My desktop is running XFCE and I was hoping to create another XFCE session to connect to. In anticipation of having to stop / restart VNC a number of times while setting things up, I created a couple of bash scripts for the task to save some typing. Though basic, you have a working remote connection. al.) If you connect to the system without any configuration you get a basic X session with a grey background and terminal window. Most major distributions have it available in their package repositories (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, et. With this information, I decided to use TightVNC as my VNC server because it will indeed allow you to connect to a new desktop session other than the existing one. What I ended up settling on after a few hours of online research, I came across a comparison of VNC systems. I needed to find a way to create a new desktop session at my Chromebook's native resolution. Most VNC servers will connect you to the existing desktop session, which will work for some, but I'm looking to connect to my dual screen desktop (3200x1080 resolution) using a HP Chromebook 11 (1366x768 resolution). It turns out that VNC server packages are not all created equal.

How to open vnc viewer chrome