Support a --local flag?

[Zate]

More of a suggestion than anything else.
I saw this popup and was fascinated by it, job well done and it's very cool.
I work quite a bit with Crostini on ChromeOS, it's basically a Debian Container running inside of ChromeOS and from the main chrome browser you can hit "penguin.linux.test" and anything that is running there locally will show up. So if you launch code-server with --host 0.0.0.0 it will show up inside the ChromeOs browser and it works REALLY well.

Your code inspired me to spend a few hours yesterday whipping up https://github.com/Zate/codetini. I think though, that when I get some pieces worked out around launching the app, perhaps I might do a pull request against this code base to add a switch such as --local and/or --crostini to support this use case. maybe both with the --crostini just being able to assume a whole bunch of things because it's configured the same on each chromebook.

so just proposing a --local flag to download/update the binary locally, connect it to any user preferences and extensions you happen to have and bring it up as either an app or in a browser tab.

[nhooyr]

Hi @Zate

Your suggestion isn't clear to me. What would the --local flag do and what problem would it fix?

[teddy-codes]

I think he wants to run code-server within crostini instead of the main ChromeOS host.

[Merith-TK]

Ah. That's really easy, just head on over to [Code-server]( github.com/cdr/code-server) and install it in a crostini container.

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