Show HN: Meld RDP – A Fast, Portable Remote Desktop Manager (.rdp)
Other connection managers I tried were too slow, overly complex, or not portable (there's something great about a utility you don't need to install)
If you're someone who needs to juggle a few RDP connections and just wants something that works, I hope you’ll find it useful... p.s. it works on my machine (TM).
A few notes:
- It includes binaries of [MsRdpEx](https://github.com/Devolutions/MsRdpEx) to edit and launch connections.
- It's free for personal use.
- For commercial use, I'm asking folks to either submit a PR or donate a few dollars to keep the project alive (details in the license).
- It's built with https://avaloniaui.net/ so it may be possible to get it working on Linux, though I have little experience there.
Would love to hear any feedback, ideas, or feature suggestions!
Thanks for checking it out!
These connections belong to different clients and have different gateway or specific settings I like to use. Most of the issues can be resolved by simply having a dedicated folder with the `.rdp` files in them, but some of the servers I connect to have short session timeouts, which make it more difficult than it needs to be to be productive. The app launches Devolutions `mstscex.exe` which provides a 'MouseJiggler' feature which tries to keep the session active. (I've opted to pass args to the binary instead of associating Devolutions `mstscex.exe` with `.rdp` files.)
Self-managing the `.rdp` files could also mean that in the future I could implement encryption of those files to make it safer to carry around on a `USB drive` without fear of loosing it etc.
Apart from that, it's also nice to be able to launch `Meld RDP` and simply press `Ctrl+3` to connect to the 3rd connection for instance. :-)