{"id":150,"date":"2022-03-05T04:18:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T04:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2022-03-05T04:18:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T04:18:44","slug":"chrome-remote-desktop-on-ubuntu-black-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/chrome-remote-desktop-on-ubuntu-black-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu Black Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently had an issue with encountering a black screen and a black &#8220;X&#8221; cursor with Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few searches led me to a stack <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/778028\/configuring-chrome-remote-desktop-with-ubuntu-gnome-14-04\/850359#850359\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/778028\/configuring-chrome-remote-desktop-with-ubuntu-gnome-14-04\/850359#850359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overflow entry from 2014<\/a>. However, I&#8217;m  lazy so I figured I&#8217;d start simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the commands below to stop and start the service fixed my issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>user@server:$ \/opt\/google\/chrome-remote-desktop\/chrome-remote-desktop --stop\n\nuser@server:$ \/opt\/google\/chrome-remote-desktop\/chrome-remote-desktop --start<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have since encountered this issue a few times. Having a smaller browser window also seems to help avoid the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had an issue with encountering a black screen and a black &#8220;X&#8221; cursor with Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.1 A few searches led me to a stack overflow entry from 2014. However, I&#8217;m lazy so I figured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/chrome-remote-desktop-on-ubuntu-black-screen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google","tag-linux","tag-remote-desktop","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}