A GNOME-native RDP and VNC client written in Rust, with an IronRDP backend for RDP and its own engine for VNC, specifically designed for connecting to Linux desktops. Full support for GNOME Remote Desktop, xrdp, KRdp, TigerVNC and wayvnc, and for Macs through macOS Screen Sharing.
Mote has been stable since 1.0. It is built in sections, each one finished and tested against a real server before the next starts; what each section holds, and what is still to come, is in docs/ROADMAP.md. What each release brought is in docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md.
- Linux machines first: GNOME Remote Desktop (Desktop Sharing and Remote Login), xrdp and KRdp over RDP, and GNOME Remote Desktop, TigerVNC and wayvnc over VNC, are what Mote is built and tested against. Mote has not been tested against a Windows machine.
- Macs as well: macOS Screen Sharing over VNC, signed in and encrypted the way Apple's own viewer is, with the sign-in each macOS version takes chosen without being told.
- Everything Remmina's RDP and VNC plugins do that a Linux server takes, in a GNOME-native interface: a session opens beside the connections, and moves to a window of its own or goes fullscreen, on one monitor or all.
- Sharp on HiDPI displays: the remote desktop follows the local scale factor, fractional scaling included, and resizes with the window.
- Clipboard sharing in both directions: text, rich text, images and files over RDP, and text over VNC.
- Encrypted by default: a VNC server that offers no encryption stops the connection before the password goes out, unless the connection allows it.
- Fast: H.264 decoding through FFmpeg or OpenH264, for RDP's graphics pipeline and wayvnc's Open H.264, and no work on the main thread that the display does not need.
- A small memory footprint, so a session costs little beside the rest of the desktop.
- Settings per connection, with defaults that suit a Linux server.
flatpak install --user --from https://mote.hyprlab.co/flatpak/co.hyprlab.Mote.flatpakrefFedora and Debian packages, AppImages and the beta channel are in docs/INSTALLING.md.
See docs/BUILDING.md. In short, with GTK 4 and libadwaita development files installed:
cargo build
./target/debug/moteEverything else is in docs/. To help, see docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.
Mote is built by a human maintainer who uses generative AI as a development tool. The maintainer decides what gets built, reviews the results, tests every release and signs off on everything that ships. The app itself contains no AI and makes no requests to AI services.
The app icon was made by Jason M.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome whether or not AI tools were involved, and everything merged is reviewed by a person.
Mote is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later.