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Compute Engine

Posted on 07-13-2021 12:10 PM
Thamx
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Hey guys, honestly I had a great experience in GCC platform since from my first bite and its guaranteed that I still do. Well my question is: Is it really possible to run any of desktop environment (e.g. fxce4, KDE, mate, awesome and etc.) from my ubuntu instance? Because every time I SSH my ubuntu I simply step on GUI && also when I RDP my windows server I cannot reach the desktop as well,  so what could be the solution or advise on this matter?  

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kolban
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Howdy and welcome to the community.  The recipe I use to reach a desktop environment in a Compute Engine is to use Chrome Remote Desktop.  Using this technique I can install a demon on the Linux environment in the Compute Engine and then run a Chrome browser on my desktop.  From there, I can login to my Compute Engine and get to see a full GUI/desktop environment.  I have found performance to be perfect from my home (I use a 100MBps ISP over cable).  If I switch it to full screen mode, I can't tell that it is running in Chrome Remote Desktop.

Setup was "ok" ... and well documented ... there a few steps but they worked as advertized.

https://cloud.google.com/architecture/chrome-desktop-remote-on-compute-engine

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