> I'd really prefer it to adopt the resolution of the client machine
We have this implemented, but the problem is that the current version of Xvfb doesn't support randr extension. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26391 . With the patch attached to that bug CRD should resize desktop automatically.
Extension sync doesn't automatically enable remote access to your machine. User must explicitly enable access on each machine that needs to be accessible (and to do that the user must be administrator).
Also the remoting service needs to be installed separately from chrome - it's not part of the extension. It's not possible to package native binaries with chrome apps/extensions, by design (except for NPAPI plugins, but extensions with NPAPI plugins are not synced and NPAPI support is being removed from Chrome).
On Linux you can disable automatic update both chrome and CRD. Just set repo_reenable_on_distupgrade to false in /etc/default/google-chrome and /etc/default/chrome-remote-desktop
We have this implemented, but the problem is that the current version of Xvfb doesn't support randr extension. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26391 . With the patch attached to that bug CRD should resize desktop automatically.