Installing Google Chrome Remote Desktop on Debian Wheezy 64bit is possible but there is a caveat: YOU NEED TO RUN GOOGLE CHROME INSTEAD OF THE CHROMIUM BROWSER Actie active directory ad AI aliens backup biotech clamav complete connect culture debian detective Dovecot fail2ban fantasy humor klassieke scifi kunstmatige intelligentie maatschappijkritiek mail military scifi mysql openvpn owncloud pfsense politiek Postfix posthumanisme robots Roundcube Scifi server space opera Spamassassin stretch technothriller Thunderbird transhumanisme twitter ubuntu virtualbox vpn wheezy windows Categories Alternative way to enable Curtain Mode on Chrome Remote Desktop for Windows computer 1) On the host Windows computer, click on Windows and type cmd. If you run Chromium you can install the Remote Desktop app but it won’t run. (I don’t think there are any differences between the 32 and 64bit versions of the browser and the extension I’m just doing this on a 64bit system and haven’t tested on 32.) #Google remote desktop curtain mode install# So if necessary first uninstall Chromium. Second, go to and download the appropriate. If aptitude mentions unmet dependencies, do deb file (mine was called google-chrome-stable_current_b). Third step: download the Remote Desktop App from the Apps page (or just Google it). # dpkg -i chrome-remote-desktop_current_b deb file was called chrome-remote-desktop_current_b. Then run the app from the app page in Chrome. It asked me about ten times to authorize but in the end it worked and I was able to run the Google Chrome Remote Desktop app without any problems. – Google says they create a logfile in /tmp/Chrome* but I haven’t been able to find it. – Adding your Linux machine to the My Computers list not yet supported on the day of this writing. – Chrome has excellent Active Directory group policy support. I’m planning on switching from UltraVNC and TeamViewer to Chrome Remote Desktop for tech support to my users. – There’s a feature in GCRD called Curtain Mode. This is essentially the difference between msrdp and msrdp /admin. As I explained in another post, Google plans to adapt Chrome menus to the visual style of Windows 11 (rounded corners), these 'new' menus with rounded corners are now available in Chrome Canary and this is how they look: Chrome menus (dark theme). The ‘/admin’ equivalent is the default in GCRD: to take over the computer and the user’s session so that the user (your co-worker for example) can see what you are doing on her computer. Enabling curtain mode on her computer disconnects her from her own session so she’ll see the ‘Press ctrl alt del to logon’ screen while you’re working in her session. Your activities are hidden (or ‘curtained’) for her. Here’s how to enable it: and bunch of other settings. #Google remote desktop curtain mode how to#
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