Sometimes the session starts, but the cursor theme fails to load, crashing the session. Try installing the Adwaita icon theme fully:
CRD logs are surprisingly helpful.
In conclusion, the marriage of Debian and Chrome Remote Desktop is a testament to the flexibility of Linux. It demonstrates that even a distribution as principled as Debian can accommodate proprietary tools when the use case demands it. The setup is not trivial, the philosophy is compromised, and the debugging can be frustrating. But for the user who needs to click a button in a browser to reach their Debian machine from a hotel room or a coffee shop, the effort is justified. Debian gives them the secure, customizable core; Chrome Remote Desktop gives them the wings. And in that uneasy but functional union, we see the future of personal computing: not pure, but practical; not ideologically perfect, but undeniably powerful. debian chrome remote desktop
There is a specific type of frustration that comes with remote desktop solutions on Linux. You have VNC (secure but clunky), RDP (fast but a nightmare to configure on non-Windows systems), and SSH (perfect but text-only). Sometimes the session starts, but the cursor theme