# Remmina

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Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK from the FreeRDP project. It supports the following protocols: SSH, VNC, RDP, NX and XDMCP.

## Installation

Install the remmina package.

For VNC support install the libvncserver package.

For SPICE support install the spice-gtk package.

If you need RDP support, also install the optional freerdp or remmina-plugin-rdesktopAUR. For these note:

- If the RDP option is not available in the Remmina dropdown menu after installing freerdp, make sure to completely quit Remmina first: run `killall remmina`. When you restart Remmina, RDP should be available.
- As of Remmina 1.2.0, some users report RDP connections using freerdp suffer from frequent unrequested disconnections, but rdesktop RDP connections being more reliable.
- Password saving depends on GNOME Keyring.

## Usage

To open previously saved connection profile you can do:

    $ remmina --connect=~/.remmina/file-name.remmina

Depending on your setup, the dirname(1) might be `~/.config/remmina/`, rather then `~/.remmina/`.

Here is the script, which renames connection profile files basing on `name=` property to make it human readable:

    #!/bin/bash
    cd ~/.remmina/    # or ~/.config/remmina/ if appropriate
    ls -1 *.remmina | while read a; do
           N=`grep '^name=' "$a" | cut -f2 -d=`;
           [ "$a" == "$N.remmina" ] || mv "$a" "$N".remmina;
    done

To minimize to tray on startup, use the `-i`/`--icon` option.

## See also

- Remmina GitLab Repository
- FreeRDP Wiki

Category:

- Remote desktop