The start-host command asked the expected questions of the computer name and PIN, then gave the error: Couldn't start host: OAuth error. To install this feature you must have google-chrome installed in your Ubuntu desktop. This is the command I got from the Chrome site, modified to work with CentOS: DISPLAY= /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/start-host -code='' -redirect-url='' -name= Logging into your web browser is required to enable remote access to your Chrome remote desktop. To perform remote sessions, all computers that are connected to the remote servers must have Google logged in as their Google account. 4.2.2 Step 2: Open the Remote Access tab at the top of that page, and log in to your Google. Chrome Remote Desktop is now available for Ubuntu 20 as of July 18th. I can get X11 to sort-of work remotely, but not well enough to run oneWEX. 1 Step 1: Open Chrome and visit the Chrome Remote Desktop page. If I can't get Chrome Remote Desktop working, I'd be willing to try another method to run GUI-based applications (in this case, IBM's oneWEX). Share Improve this answer Follow answered at 4:11 Kelvin 428 5 6 Thank you Just worked for me on an Ubuntu 20.04 fresh install. I did the likely web searches and found some fairly old and unhelpful information, but nothing useful. So simply create it via mkdir /.config/chrome-remote-desktop, refresh your chrome, and the 'turn on' section will show up. There was not an option for CentOS, so I chose 'Debian' and when it gave me the connect command, I replaced the path to start-host with the CentOS one of /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/start-host, and running the resulting command fails. I accessed the site with Chrome, filled out the choices, and went through the authorization phase. When I run the start-host command, it fails with 'OAuth error' and no more information. I'm running CentOS 7 in a Google Compute Engine VM, and trying to connect to it via Chrome Remote Desktop.

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