

What about applications not on the launcher? I found the new Ubuntu a little perplexing at first. The screenshot below is more or less the default, though I have added Google Chrome and locked the Terminal to the launcher. The launcher is like the Windows 7 taskbar, in that it lets you quit as well as launch applications. It is a clean, minimalist shell with a launcher on the left edge. This is the first time I have tried Unity, the desktop shell originally designed for netbooks which is now the default in Ubuntu. Installation was straightforward: download iso of install CD, mount in new Hyper-V VM, install, and wait while updates are downloaded. I installed the new release on Microsoft’s Hyper-V. On the Set up another computer page, click Begin.Canonical has released Ubuntu 12.04, a “long term support” version which will be supported for five years on both desktop and server. On your local computer, using the Chrome browser, go to the Chrome Remote Desktop command line setup page: Ģ. To start the remote desktop connection, you need to have an authorization key for your Google account.ġ. SSH into the virtual machine again and start SLiM: sudo service slim start Configure the Chrome Remote Desktop service and Connect to your Ubuntu Desktop You will lose connection when you reboot. Once finishes installation, reboot the machine: sudo rebootĥ. Install Ubuntu desktop environment (the installation process may need around 20 minutes): sudo apt install ubuntu-desktopĤ. Here I use SLiM for its lightweight feature. In the SSH window connected to your VM instance, refresh the repository and package lists, and perform the necessary upgrades with the following command: sudo apt update & sudo apt upgradeĢ. Now we need to install a desktop environment and window manager for Chrome Remote Desktop to communicate with the VM instance.ġ. chrome-remote-desktop_current_b Set up a Ubuntu desktop environment in the VM instance Download and install the Debian Linux Chrome Remote Desktop installation package: wget The next step is to install Chrome Remote Desktop on the VM instance. If you prefer to start a VM through Google Cloud Shell, you can use this command to achieve the same result: gcloud compute instances create instance-1 -zone=us-central1-a -machine-type=e2-medium -image=projects/ubuntu-os-pro-cloud/global/images/ubuntu-pro-2204-jammy-v20220923 Install Chrome Remote Desktop on the VM instance
