About field-monitor

Remote-desktop client designed for the GNOME platform. Access virtual machines and other external screens.

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Field Monitor

Access virtual machines and other external screens

Field Monitor is a remote-desktop client designed for the GNOME platform.

It is focused on connecting to virtual machines, but can connect to any server supporting the RDP, SPICE or VNC protocols.

It has support for directly connecting to VMs of the following hypervisors:

Proxmox
QEMU/KVM via libvirt

For supported VM hypervisors Field Monitor also offers options to manage the basic power state of VMs, such as starting, stopping, rebooting, etc.

Additionally, Field Monitor supports opening RDP and Virt Viewer connection files and quickly connecting to RDP, SPICE or VNC servers via URI.

Installation

From Flatpak

Field Monitor can be downloaded via Flathub.

For NixOS

Field Monitor can be installed via nixpkgs:

For Arch Linux

An AUR package for Field Monitor: AUR

[!WARNING]
Please note that this package is not officially maintained by the Field Monitor developers.

All distro repositories

From Source

Field Monitor can be built from source using Meson. For a list of requirements, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contributing

Thank you for considering to contribute to Field Monitor! Field Monitor is free software and lives from people investing time into making it better. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Field Monitor would not be possible without Marc-André Lureau's rdw, the remote-desktop widgets that power all RDP, VNC and SPICE connections. Thank you!

License

Field Monitor is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, please see COPYING for more information.

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