chrome-remote-desktop: init at 120.0.6099.24 #283285
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Based on the work from this Gist by @sepiabrown: https://gist.github.com/sepiabrown/0dbca7da5610055991ad04bbeb461fed And also from AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chrome-remote-desktop
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Hey @sepiabrown, would like some help here if you still are interested in this package getting in nixpkgs. |
I can't remember seeing the file $HOME/.config/chrome-remote-desktop/host#.json. Have you tried using other working linux machine to retrieve the JSON file and putting it under the above path in the NixOS machine? |
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I'd like to share my result. My machine can boot Windows or NixOS. Both OS share the same static IP (I don't know whether this is relevant) and "hostname" (Important, when each OS was given its own hostname, the following copying method did not work). I copied "host.json" and "host_unprivileged.json" from "C:\ProgramData\Google\Chrome Remote Desktop" in Windows, to "host#xxx.json" and "host#xxx.settings.json" in NixOS respectively. CRD on NixOS now stops complaining about "host#xxx.json". For those who doesn't have Windows. I didn't try this but I would like to suggest running Ubuntu in VM/Docker on NixOS, with the same "hostname" as NixOS. Setup CRD on the VM, then copy its "host#xxx.json" to NixOS. However, CRD complains that it cannot open display ":1", both on Wayland & X11. Result on Plasma Wayland: $ journalctl -b -u chrome-remote-desktop@namin Result on Plasma X11. $ /nix/store/...hash...-chrome-remote-desktop/opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-remote-desktop --start --new-session (chrome-remote-desktop-host:20486): Gtk-WARNING **: 23:37:32.885: cannot open display: :1 |
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@naminx can you post the contents of your Maybe I can create a script that generate this file and get it working without needing another operational system. |
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Hi, here are the files. Please note that "xxx" in the file name changes when your "hostname" changes. My first attempt to copy host#xxx.settings.json: host#xxx.json: |
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@naminx this is great, thank you. I have an idea of what the hash from the hostname is, will give it a try later. For everything that is a hash in the file, can you show it to me if they're the same or different? |
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Sorry. I misslooked one field in "host#xxx.json". There is one more field named "private_key". { The field "host_id" in "host#xxx.settings.json" and "host#xxx.json" are identical. I check the host.json and host_unprivileged.json from another Windows machine. |
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Hi all, I think I have found the way to create "host#xxx.json".
In order to make https://remotedesktop.google.com/access show that your host is "Online",
When I examine the service log, I get: |
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Hi all, We are in business!
Update 27 Feb: |
| replacePrefix = "/opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop"; | ||
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| stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation rec { | ||
| name = "chrome-remote-desktop"; |
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| name = "chrome-remote-desktop"; | |
| pname = "chrome-remote-desktop"; |
or any special reason to use name here?
| --replace ${replacePrefix}/remote-assistance-host $out/${replacePrefix}/remote-assistance-host | ||
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| substituteInPlace $out/${replacePrefix}/chrome-remote-desktop \ | ||
| --replace /usr/bin/python3 ${python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ psutil pyxdg packaging ])}/bin/python3 \ |
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it could be in the let-in above, like
| --replace /usr/bin/python3 ${python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ psutil pyxdg packaging ])}/bin/python3 \ | |
| --replace /usr/bin/python3 ${lib.getBin pythonEnv}/bin/python3 \ |
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Any reason to not use the packages directly?
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| substituteInPlace $out/${replacePrefix}/chrome-remote-desktop \ | ||
| --replace /usr/bin/python3 ${python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ psutil pyxdg packaging ])}/bin/python3 \ | ||
| --replace '"Xvfb"' '"${xorg.xorgserver}/bin/Xvfb"' \ |
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Use lib.getExe'.
It works like
lib.getExe' pkgs.imagemagick "convert" => /nix/store/<imagemagick-id>/bin/convert
Description of changes
Fixes: #34084.
Previous attempt: #157962
Based on this gist from @sepiabrown.
There are some differences between this approach and the previous attempt from @sepiabrown. This one will not use our own infrastructure to create a systemd service, instead relying on the files shipped upstream. So you can use
systemctl start chrome-remote-desktop@<user>.serviceto start it foruser.Not working yet, the following issues needs to be fixed:
The whole issue seems to be the
~/.config/chrome-remote-desktop/host#<hash>.jsonconfiguration file, that I have zero ideas on how to generate. Would like some help here.Things done
nix.conf? (See Nix manual)sandbox = relaxedsandbox = truenix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage./result/bin/)Add a 👍 reaction to pull requests you find important.