This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. For those of you who didn’t know, Chrome Remote Desktop is an excellent tool to allow you to access your computer’s desktop remotely over the Internet a protocol called Chromoting on Google Chrome browsers. There are still entries for them in /etc/init.d/ - I'm not sure if its advisable to remove them or not.In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. However, when I reboot I still find all the processes up and running. 'update-rc.d chrome-remote-desktop remove'. Removing services from rc.d using e.g.When I run 'service -status-all', lightdm and chrome-remote-desktop are both shown as not running, yet the various google/desktop processes are still running and I can still open the desktop environment via Chrome remote desktop. Stopping services using 'service X stop'.

I suppose there is some service that runs them? This is laborious and doesn't work - the processes mostly get spawned anew shortly after being killed. There are several dozen of them, but I have tried killing various processes - xfce4-panel, chrome-remote-desktop-host, xfce4-session, lightdm, others. I've had difficulty understanding the various methods of running services / startup services on Unix. Failing that, I'd like to prevent it from launching on startup so that at least I can reboot the machine to close the desktop. I'd like to be able to turn the desktop off and on at will.

The VM is very puny, so having all the random processes that come with the desktop running can cause a performance hit. The trouble is, I cannot figure out how to disable it now.

I followed this article from Google to set up Chrome Remote Desktop with Xfce - this works perfectly. However, very occasionally, I need to use a desktop environment. I have an Ubuntu 20 VM on Google Cloud Platform.

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