Remmina

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Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+. It supports:

  • SSH
  • VNC
  • RDP
  • NX
  • SFTP
  • XDMCP

Installation

# pacman -S freerdp remmina

If you try to install remmina before freerdp RDP will not be an option in the dropdown menu. Some people have also had issues when not installing them exactly as shown above. Some people report needing to reboot before seeing RDP as an option.

Application menu shortcut/icon

~/.local/share/applications/remmina.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Remmina
Comment=A remote desktop client
Exec=remmina
Icon=remmina
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;

Using from command line

You can do

$ remmina -c ~/.remmina/file-name.remmina

to open previously saved connection profile.

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

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/.remmina
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, run:

remmina -i