Hi! Remmina - a multiprotocol remote desktop client.

Posted by The Remmina Team on January 23, 2019

Remmina is (or aims to be) a multiprotocol remote desktop client. It supports RDP (via libfreerdp), SSH, VNC, SPICE and other remote desktop protocols, featuring a very nice profile editor, and it can save credentials into gnome keyring or kdewallet.

According to our statistics, more than 60% of the profiles defined by the Remmina users are RDP, the resting 40% is shared among VNC, SSH, SPICE, NX and XDMCP. This highlight the importance of the RDP protocol for Remmina and we want to thank the FreeRDP team for maintaining such an amazing project and for having always supported Remmina from the beginning.

The main Remmina strengths are: The ability to keep a list of multiple profiles for faster access, and the fact that profile management is completely GUI based, therefore there is no need to remember or search help for complex command line options.

Multiple simultaneous connections with very flexible windowing abilities makes Remmina desirable by people who need quick access to many different RDP or SSH servers. It features remote desktop windows grouping, scaling, dynamic resolution update (for RDP only), quick switch between full-screen and windowed mode and many other interesting features very appreciated by Microsoft Windows server sysadmins, and for those Unix admins that manage several different customers with many SSH or KVM servers (through SPICE or VNC).

Remmina was initially developed by Vic Lee till the second half of 2011, after that it has been adopted (temporarily) by the FreeRDP project, but only few contributions were coming to Remmina as the FreeRDP project was too busy with our beloved library. Finally, in the second half of the 2014, because of the pushy prayers of Antenore and Giovanni, Marc-André Moreau gave the maintainer access to Antenore, immediately followed by Giovanni.

Today Remmina is still maintained by Antenore and Giovanni, plus some very important contributors, that keep helping us improving the project (please see the Thanks.md page).

Remmina is now installed by several thousands people and as we are collecting statistics, we will be able soon to understand in depth how many of those are really used and how. We hope, with these statistics, to be able to better target our user needs to maximize what we do. We want to remind to everybody, as usual, that Remmina is developed for free, in our free time, therefore maximizing our efforts is a key factor.

For more information have a look to the Remmina website.