remotedesktop 0.14.0__tar.gz → 0.17.0__tar.gz

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  1. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/CLAUDE.md +1 -1
  2. remotedesktop-0.17.0/PKG-INFO +148 -0
  3. remotedesktop-0.17.0/docs/media/client-demo.gif +0 -0
  4. remotedesktop-0.17.0/docs/media/server-demo.gif +0 -0
  5. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/pyproject.toml +47 -46
  6. remotedesktop-0.17.0/readme.md +129 -0
  7. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/__init__.py +1 -1
  8. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/performance.py +138 -19
  9. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/server.py +94 -3
  10. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/sharing.py +50 -1
  11. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_performance.py +119 -0
  12. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_server_window.py +71 -0
  13. remotedesktop-0.17.0/tools/make_demo_gifs.py +287 -0
  14. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/uv.lock +384 -332
  15. remotedesktop-0.14.0/PKG-INFO +0 -137
  16. remotedesktop-0.14.0/readme.md +0 -118
  17. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/.github/workflows/ci.yml +0 -0
  18. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/.gitignore +0 -0
  19. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/LICENSE +0 -0
  20. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/run_claude.bat +0 -0
  21. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/run_client.bat +0 -0
  22. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/run_server.bat +0 -0
  23. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/scripts/make_coverage_badge.py +0 -0
  24. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/scripts/make_venv.bat +0 -0
  25. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/autostart.py +0 -0
  26. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/client.py +0 -0
  27. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/clipboard.py +0 -0
  28. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/config.py +0 -0
  29. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/db.py +0 -0
  30. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/discovery.py +0 -0
  31. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/dxgi.py +0 -0
  32. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/frames.py +0 -0
  33. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/icon.py +0 -0
  34. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/input_injection.py +0 -0
  35. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/inventory.py +0 -0
  36. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/logs.py +0 -0
  37. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/modal_loop.py +0 -0
  38. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/preferences.py +0 -0
  39. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/protocol.py +0 -0
  40. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/tls.py +0 -0
  41. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/viewer.py +0 -0
  42. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/src/remotedesktop/window_state.py +0 -0
  43. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/conftest.py +0 -0
  44. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_autostart.py +0 -0
  45. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_client_window.py +0 -0
  46. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_clipboard.py +0 -0
  47. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_config.py +0 -0
  48. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_discovery.py +0 -0
  49. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_dxgi.py +0 -0
  50. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_frames.py +0 -0
  51. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_icon.py +0 -0
  52. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_input.py +0 -0
  53. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_input_injection.py +0 -0
  54. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_inventory.py +0 -0
  55. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_logs.py +0 -0
  56. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_modal_loop.py +0 -0
  57. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_preferences.py +0 -0
  58. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_protocol.py +0 -0
  59. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_sharing.py +0 -0
  60. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_smoke.py +0 -0
  61. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_tls.py +0 -0
  62. {remotedesktop-0.14.0 → remotedesktop-0.17.0}/tests/test_window_state.py +0 -0
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  - **Log exchange**: either side can fetch the peer's debug log over the connection (`{"type": "log_request"}` → `{"type": "log", "text": ...}`, admitted streams only). `ShareServer`/`ShareClient` take a `log_provider=` callable (the windows pass `logs.read_log_tail("server"/"client")`, capped at `logs.TAIL_BYTES`); a missing provider/file answers with a placeholder rather than hanging the requester. Both windows have a "Get client log"/"Get server log" button in the Connection log tab; the reply opens a `logs.PeerLogDialog`. The server requests from the most recently admitted stream.
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  - **Injection is isolated behind `InputInjector`** (`input_injection.py`, Windows `SendInput` via ctypes; inert stub off-Windows). ShareServer takes an `injector=` param so tests pass a recording fake — **never let tests construct a real `InputInjector`, or they will move the host's actual mouse/keyboard.** Normalized 0..1 coords map directly to SendInput's 0..65535 absolute range over the primary monitor.
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  - **Transport is TLS + a token handshake** (`tls.py`, `sharing.py`, `config.py`). The Qt SSL backend here is Windows **schannel** (no OpenSSL); it does complete server-side TLS with a `cryptography`-generated self-signed cert loaded from PEM (verified), but be wary of schannel-specific quirks if you change the config. The server persists a self-signed cert/key under the config dir (`tls.load_or_create_credentials`; `ShareServer(credentials=...)`, or ephemeral if omitted). The client connects with `connectToHostEncrypted`, ignores the expected self-signed cert errors (`PeerVerifyMode.VerifyNone`), and pins the cert fingerprint **softly** — a change is logged but does *not* block the connection (robustness over strict security, per the trusted-LAN intent). Authentication: on first connect the server user approves and the server issues a random token (`PairedClients.pair`, stored server-side by client-id; client stores it in `KnownServers` keyed by `host:port` with the fingerprint). On reconnect the client sends the token in its hello and is admitted with no prompt; a missing/invalid token just falls back to re-approval (never hard-fails). **Do not reintroduce hard cert-pinning or challenge-response** — the user explicitly wanted robust connections over maximum security.
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- - **Performance monitoring** (`performance.py` + `preferences.py`): `PerformanceMonitor` is an opt-in collaborator (`performance=` on `ShareServer`/`ShareClient`, the `clipboard=` pattern — plain sharing tests leave it off). While admitted streams are attached, a 1 s QTimer samples `MessageStream.bytes_sent/bytes_received` counters into rolling `MetricSeries` (bandwidth, aggregated across streams via per-stream baselines) and pings the most recently admitted stream: `{"type": "ping", "id", "rtt"}` / `{"type": "pong", "id"}` — each side measures its own RTT and piggybacks it on its next ping so both ends graph both directions; peers without the feature ignore pings harmlessly (RTT graphs show "no data"). Ping/pong is admitted-streams-only on the server, like input/clipboard. Both windows have a "Performance" tab (`PerformanceTab`, custom QPainter graphs) that schedules **no paint work while hidden** (gated on `isVisible()`, repaint on `showEvent`) and a "Preferences" tab whose history-window setting persists via the `Settings` store (`performance_window_seconds`, default 120). The monitor's timer runs only while streams are attached; all timing is `time.monotonic()` with an injectable `clock=` for tests — never monkeypatch `time.monotonic` (the test `pump()` helper depends on it).
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+ - **Performance monitoring** (`performance.py` + `preferences.py`): `PerformanceMonitor` is an opt-in collaborator (`performance=` on `ShareServer`/`ShareClient`, the `clipboard=` pattern — plain sharing tests leave it off). While admitted streams are attached, a 1 s QTimer samples `MessageStream.bytes_sent/bytes_received` counters into rolling `MetricSeries` (bandwidth, aggregated across streams via per-stream baselines) and pings **every** attached stream (each ping id maps to its stream; a pong is honored only on the stream it was sent to). The graphs' RTT series follow only the *active* (most recently admitted) stream; per-stream send/recv/RTT snapshots come from `metrics_for(stream)` and feed the server's Status-tab `ViewersTable` (`server.py`), which joins them with `ShareServer.viewers()` — identity fields (`user`/`host`/`os`) that the client hello reports (`_client_details()`; missing on old clients, shown as dashes). The ping is: `{"type": "ping", "id", "rtt"}` / `{"type": "pong", "id"}` — each side measures its own RTT and piggybacks it on its next ping so both ends graph both directions; peers without the feature ignore pings harmlessly (RTT graphs show "no data"). Ping/pong is admitted-streams-only on the server, like input/clipboard. Both windows have a "Performance" tab (`PerformanceTab`, custom QPainter graphs) that schedules **no paint work while hidden** (gated on `isVisible()`, repaint on `showEvent`) and a "Preferences" tab whose history-window setting persists via the `Settings` store (`performance_window_seconds`, default 120). The monitor's timer runs only while streams are attached; all timing is `time.monotonic()` with an injectable `clock=` for tests — never monkeypatch `time.monotonic` (the test `pump()` helper depends on it).
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  - **Clipboard sync is bidirectional** (`clipboard.py` `ClipboardSync`): client copy → server and server copy → all clients, as `{"type": "clipboard", "text"/"image_png"}` messages. It's opt-in — `ShareServer`/`ShareClient` take a `clipboard=` param and do nothing with clipboard if it's None, so only the GUIs (and clipboard tests) enable it; **plain sharing/input tests must leave it off to avoid touching the real OS clipboard.** Echo/loop prevention is by *content signature*, not just a guard flag, because Windows fires `QClipboard.dataChanged` asynchronously (after a flag would be cleared); image signatures hash canonical RGBA pixels so a re-encoded PNG round trip doesn't loop. Server only accepts clipboard from streams past the approval handshake. Tests use a `FakeClipboard(QObject)` with a `changed` signal and recording `apply()` so two independent clipboards exist in one process.
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: remotedesktop
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+ Version: 0.17.0
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+ Summary: Remote desktop client/server for Windows computers on the same LAN, with autodiscovery. Provides screen, keyboard, mouse, and clipboard sharing without RDP or Microsoft authentication.
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+ Author-email: James Abel <j@abel.co>
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+ License-Expression: MIT
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Win32 (MS Windows)
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Topic :: System :: Networking
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.14
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+ Requires-Dist: cryptography>=49.0.0
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+ Requires-Dist: platformdirs>=4.10.0
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+ Requires-Dist: pyside6>=6.11.1
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # Remote Desktop
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+ [![CI](https://github.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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+ ![Coverage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/badges/coverage.svg)
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+ [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/remotedesktop)](https://pypi.org/project/remotedesktop/)
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+ ![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.14%2B-blue)
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+ ![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)
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+ **Lossless, low-latency remote desktop for Windows computers on your LAN — pure Python, zero configuration.**
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+ Run the server on the computer you want to reach and the client anywhere else
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+ on the network: the server is discovered automatically, the first connection
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+ is approved with one click on the server side, and from then on the client
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+ reconnects instantly whenever the server is running. The screen stream is
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+ pixel-exact at full resolution — built for documents, code, and terminals
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+ rather than video — captured with DXGI desktop duplication and delta-compressed
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+ so only the parts of the screen that changed are sent. No Windows RDP, no
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+ Microsoft accounts, no cloud: just two apps and your LAN.
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+ ## See it in action
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+
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+ ### Client
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+ ![Client demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/master/docs/media/client-demo.gif)
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+ The client discovers the server on the LAN, connects, and streams its
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+ desktop live in the *Remote Screen* tab — click into the view and your mouse
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+ and keyboard control the remote machine. The *Performance* tab graphs
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+ bandwidth and round-trip time with live statistics.
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+ ### Server
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+ ![Server demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/master/docs/media/server-demo.gif)
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+ The server's *Status* tab shows every connected viewer — who they are (login
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+ name, computer, OS) and how the connection is doing (bandwidth, round-trip
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+ time with mean/min/max/p99/jitter over the recent window).
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+ ## Features
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+ - 🔍 **Autodiscovery** — servers announce themselves over UDP; the client lists every server on the LAN, no addresses to type.
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+ - 🖥️ **Lossless screen sharing** — pixel-exact at full resolution, DXGI desktop-duplication capture (~10 ms per 4K frame), and inter-frame delta compression: an unchanged screen sends nothing.
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+ - ⌨️🖱️ **Full input control** — mouse, wheel, and keyboard forwarding that is safe against interruptions: anything still held down is released on the server if the viewer loses focus or disconnects, so no stuck keys.
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+ - 📋 **Two-way clipboard** — text and images copied on either machine appear on the other.
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+ - 🔒 **TLS + approve-once pairing** — every connection is encrypted; the server user approves a new client once, after which it reconnects with a stored token and no prompt.
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+ - 📊 **Built-in performance monitoring** — live bandwidth and round-trip-time graphs with window statistics (mean/min/max/p99/jitter), plus a per-viewer table on the server.
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+ - 🔁 **Robust connections** — dead connections are detected and dropped within seconds, and approved clients reconnect automatically without ceremony.
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+ - 🚀 **Hands-off operation** — optional start-at-login (per-user, no admin rights) and a *Restart server* button usable from the remote session itself, so you can update the software without visiting the machine.
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+ - 🗃️ **Persistent peer inventory** — both apps keep a SQLite-backed history of every peer seen on the LAN, with one-click *revoke access* / *forget server*.
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+ In scope: screen, keyboard, mouse, and clipboard. Out of scope: shared
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+ drives, devices, and audio — and smooth playback of fast-changing
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+ full-screen content (video, games) is a non-goal; the stream is optimized
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+ for mostly-static desktop work.
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+ ## Installation
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+ ```
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+ pip install remotedesktop
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+ ```
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+ or, with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):
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+ ```
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+ uv tool install remotedesktop
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+ ```
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+ Or run straight from a clone of this repository: double-click
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+ `run_server.bat` on the computer to be shared and `run_client.bat` on the
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+ viewing computer — each prepares the environment on first use and launches
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+ the app.
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+ ## Quick start
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+ 1. On the computer to share, run `remotedesktop-server`.
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+ 2. On the viewing computer, run `remotedesktop-client` — the server appears
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+ in its *Servers* panel; double-click it.
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+ 3. Approve the connection in the dialog that pops up on the server. That's
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+ it — future connections from that client need no approval.
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+ `uv run remotedesktop-server` and `uv run remotedesktop-client`.
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+ ## Security model
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+ Connections are TLS-encrypted with a self-signed certificate the server
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+ generates once and keeps. The trust model is tuned for a **trusted LAN**:
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+ certificates are trusted on first use and a changed fingerprint is logged
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+ rather than blocking the connection, favoring reliable reconnection over
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+ strict certificate checking. Unapproved clients are limited to small
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+ handshake messages until the server user admits them; access can be revoked
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+ at any time from the server's *Clients on LAN* tab. There is no dependency
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+ on Windows RDP or any Microsoft-based authentication.
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+ ## Requirements
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+ ## How discovery works
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+ The client broadcasts a small JSON probe over UDP (port 48653); each server
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+ on the LAN replies with its hostname and connection port. Windows Firewall
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+ must allow Python to receive inbound UDP on that port for a server to be
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+ discoverable from other machines.
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+ ## Development
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+ ```
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+ uv sync # set up the environment
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+ uv run pytest # run the tests
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+ ```
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+ Run the tests from PowerShell or cmd, not Git Bash: Git Bash puts Git's
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+ MinGW OpenSSL DLLs on `PATH`, which Qt's TLS backend loads and crashes on.
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+ From PowerShell, Qt uses the Windows schannel backend as intended.
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+ The demo GIFs above are generated — entirely from synthetic data — by
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+ `uv run python tools/make_demo_gifs.py`.
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+ ### The `badges` branch
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+ The coverage badge above is served from the `badges` branch
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+ (`raw.githubusercontent.com/.../badges/coverage.svg`). CI regenerates the
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+ SVG after each test run on `master` and force-pushes it there as a single
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+ orphan commit. It lives on its own branch because `master` only accepts
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+ pull requests (a repository ruleset), so CI cannot commit to it directly;
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+ keeping the badge in the repo avoids depending on an external coverage
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+ service. The branch is generated output — never branch from it or merge it.
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- [project]
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- name = "remotedesktop"
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- dynamic = ["version"]
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- description = "Remote desktop client/server for Windows computers on the same LAN, with autodiscovery. Provides screen, keyboard, mouse, and clipboard sharing without RDP or Microsoft authentication."
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- readme = "readme.md"
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- license = "MIT"
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- authors = [{ name = "James Abel", email = "j@abel.co" }]
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- requires-python = ">=3.14"
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- classifiers = [
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- "Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha",
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- "Environment :: Win32 (MS Windows)",
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- "Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop",
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- "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
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- "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
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- "Topic :: System :: Networking",
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- ]
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- dependencies = [
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- "cryptography>=49.0.0",
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- remotedesktop-client = "remotedesktop.client:main"
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- remotedesktop-server = "remotedesktop.server:main"
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- dev = [
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- requires = ["hatchling"]
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- build-backend = "hatchling.build"
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- [tool.hatch.version]
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- path = "src/remotedesktop/__init__.py"
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- python-platform = "win32"
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+ [project]
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+ name = "remotedesktop"
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+ dynamic = ["version"]
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+ description = "Remote desktop client/server for Windows computers on the same LAN, with autodiscovery. Provides screen, keyboard, mouse, and clipboard sharing without RDP or Microsoft authentication."
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+ readme = "readme.md"
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+ license = "MIT"
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+ authors = [{ name = "James Abel", email = "j@abel.co" }]
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+ requires-python = ">=3.14"
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+ classifiers = [
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+ "Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha",
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+ "Environment :: Win32 (MS Windows)",
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+ "Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop",
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+ "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
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+ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
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+ "Topic :: System :: Networking",
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+ ]
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+ dependencies = [
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+ "cryptography>=49.0.0",
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+ "platformdirs>=4.10.0",
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+ "pyside6>=6.11.1",
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+ ]
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+ remotedesktop-client = "remotedesktop.client:main"
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+ remotedesktop-server = "remotedesktop.server:main"
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+
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+ dev = [
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+ "pillow>=12.3.0",
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+ "pytest>=8",
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+ "pytest-cov>=7.1.0",
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+ ]
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+ requires = ["hatchling"]
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+ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
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+ path = "src/remotedesktop/__init__.py"
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+ [tool.pytest.ini_options]
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+ testpaths = ["tests"]
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+ [tool.ty.environment]
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+ # The app targets Windows (SendInput via ctypes.windll); type-check as such
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+ # even when ty runs on a Linux CI runner.
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+ python-platform = "win32"
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+ # Remote Desktop
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+ [![CI](https://github.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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+ ![Coverage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/badges/coverage.svg)
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+ [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/remotedesktop)](https://pypi.org/project/remotedesktop/)
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+ ![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.14%2B-blue)
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+ ![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)
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+ **Lossless, low-latency remote desktop for Windows computers on your LAN — pure Python, zero configuration.**
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+ Run the server on the computer you want to reach and the client anywhere else
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+ on the network: the server is discovered automatically, the first connection
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+ is approved with one click on the server side, and from then on the client
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+ reconnects instantly whenever the server is running. The screen stream is
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+ pixel-exact at full resolution — built for documents, code, and terminals
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+ rather than video — captured with DXGI desktop duplication and delta-compressed
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+ so only the parts of the screen that changed are sent. No Windows RDP, no
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+ Microsoft accounts, no cloud: just two apps and your LAN.
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+ ## See it in action
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+ ### Client
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+
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+ ![Client demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/master/docs/media/client-demo.gif)
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+ The client discovers the server on the LAN, connects, and streams its
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+ desktop live in the *Remote Screen* tab — click into the view and your mouse
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+ and keyboard control the remote machine. The *Performance* tab graphs
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+ bandwidth and round-trip time with live statistics.
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+ ### Server
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+ ![Server demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesabel/remotedesktop/master/docs/media/server-demo.gif)
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+ The server's *Status* tab shows every connected viewer — who they are (login
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+ name, computer, OS) and how the connection is doing (bandwidth, round-trip
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+ time with mean/min/max/p99/jitter over the recent window).
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+ ## Features
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+ - 🔍 **Autodiscovery** — servers announce themselves over UDP; the client lists every server on the LAN, no addresses to type.
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+ - 🖥️ **Lossless screen sharing** — pixel-exact at full resolution, DXGI desktop-duplication capture (~10 ms per 4K frame), and inter-frame delta compression: an unchanged screen sends nothing.
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+ - ⌨️🖱️ **Full input control** — mouse, wheel, and keyboard forwarding that is safe against interruptions: anything still held down is released on the server if the viewer loses focus or disconnects, so no stuck keys.
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+ - 📋 **Two-way clipboard** — text and images copied on either machine appear on the other.
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+ - 🔒 **TLS + approve-once pairing** — every connection is encrypted; the server user approves a new client once, after which it reconnects with a stored token and no prompt.
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+ - 📊 **Built-in performance monitoring** — live bandwidth and round-trip-time graphs with window statistics (mean/min/max/p99/jitter), plus a per-viewer table on the server.
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+ - 🔁 **Robust connections** — dead connections are detected and dropped within seconds, and approved clients reconnect automatically without ceremony.
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+ - 🚀 **Hands-off operation** — optional start-at-login (per-user, no admin rights) and a *Restart server* button usable from the remote session itself, so you can update the software without visiting the machine.
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+ - 🗃️ **Persistent peer inventory** — both apps keep a SQLite-backed history of every peer seen on the LAN, with one-click *revoke access* / *forget server*.
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+ In scope: screen, keyboard, mouse, and clipboard. Out of scope: shared
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+ drives, devices, and audio — and smooth playback of fast-changing
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+ full-screen content (video, games) is a non-goal; the stream is optimized
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+ for mostly-static desktop work.
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+ ## Installation
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+ ```
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+ pip install remotedesktop
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+ ```
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+ or, with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):
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+ ```
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+ uv tool install remotedesktop
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+ ```
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+ Or run straight from a clone of this repository: double-click
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+ `run_server.bat` on the computer to be shared and `run_client.bat` on the
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+ viewing computer — each prepares the environment on first use and launches
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+ the app.
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+ ## Quick start
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+ 1. On the computer to share, run `remotedesktop-server`.
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+ 2. On the viewing computer, run `remotedesktop-client` — the server appears
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+ in its *Servers* panel; double-click it.
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+ 3. Approve the connection in the dialog that pops up on the server. That's
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+ it — future connections from that client need no approval.
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+ From a terminal in a clone of this repo, the same apps run with
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+ `uv run remotedesktop-server` and `uv run remotedesktop-client`.
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+ ## Security model
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+ Connections are TLS-encrypted with a self-signed certificate the server
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+ generates once and keeps. The trust model is tuned for a **trusted LAN**:
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+ certificates are trusted on first use and a changed fingerprint is logged
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+ rather than blocking the connection, favoring reliable reconnection over
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+ strict certificate checking. Unapproved clients are limited to small
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+ handshake messages until the server user admits them; access can be revoked
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+ at any time from the server's *Clients on LAN* tab. There is no dependency
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+ on Windows RDP or any Microsoft-based authentication.
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+
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+ ## Requirements
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+ - Windows
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+ - Python 3.14+
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+ ## How discovery works
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+ The client broadcasts a small JSON probe over UDP (port 48653); each server
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+ on the LAN replies with its hostname and connection port. Windows Firewall
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+ must allow Python to receive inbound UDP on that port for a server to be
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+ discoverable from other machines.
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+ ## Development
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+ ```
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+ uv sync # set up the environment
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+ uv run pytest # run the tests
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+ ```
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+ Run the tests from PowerShell or cmd, not Git Bash: Git Bash puts Git's
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+ MinGW OpenSSL DLLs on `PATH`, which Qt's TLS backend loads and crashes on.
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+ From PowerShell, Qt uses the Windows schannel backend as intended.
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+ The demo GIFs above are generated — entirely from synthetic data — by
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+ `uv run python tools/make_demo_gifs.py`.
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+ ### The `badges` branch
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+ The coverage badge above is served from the `badges` branch
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+ (`raw.githubusercontent.com/.../badges/coverage.svg`). CI regenerates the
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+ SVG after each test run on `master` and force-pushes it there as a single
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+ orphan commit. It lives on its own branch because `master` only accepts
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+ pull requests (a repository ruleset), so CI cannot commit to it directly;
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+ keeping the badge in the repo avoids depending on an external coverage
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+ service. The branch is generated output — never branch from it or merge it.
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