RDP and VNC client with tabs, beside your terminals.

~/xtermium $ cat rdp.txt

An RDP client with tabs.

RDP desktops open embedded in a tab, through IronRDP, with NLA/NTLM sign-in and the server’s key trusted on first use. Split them with terminals, or move one to its own window and back.

~/xtermium $ cat vnc.txt

A VNC client in the same window.

VNC desktops open in a tab through vnc-rs, with the ZRLE, TRLE, CopyRect and Raw encodings, and follow the pane’s size where the server allows it. XTermium can remember the VNC password; Settings › Saved logins lists it.

VNC isn’t encrypted, and every connection says so over the desktop, unless it goes through an SSH gateway or a tunnel’s local port. A VNC tab gets a file panel too, over an SSH connection of its own to the desktop’s host.

~/xtermium $ cat one-window.txt

RDP and SSH in one app.

Yes: SSH, SFTP, RDP, VNC, telnet, serial, WinRM, BMC consoles, websites and SSH tunnels live in one sidebar, in folders you search by typing, and open side by side in one window. Split an RDP desktop beside an SSH terminal, or tile every tab you tick. One shared login can sign in to both.

~/xtermium $ cat manager.txt

An open-source remote desktop manager.

XTermium is an open-source remote desktop manager for Windows, Linux and macOS, free under the Apache License 2.0. RDP desktops open embedded in a tab through IronRDP, with NLA/NTLM sign-in, and reconnect on their own when the network drops. VNC desktops open in a tab too, and follow the pane’s size where the server allows it. BMC consoles, such as Supermicro and Dell iDRAC, open in a private tab that keeps nothing once it closes, and WinRM opens PowerShell on a Windows host. They all sit in folders in one sidebar, beside your SSH sessions, and split into panes next to your terminals. A shared login signs in to any number of them: change its password once and every session uses the new one. A saved layout puts a whole screen of desktops back, each in its pane, in one click.

~/xtermium $ cat bmc.txt

BMC and KVM consoles in a tab.

Save a BMC as a session and XTermium signs in with the saved login and opens its console in a tab, in the system’s own browser engine. Supermicro and Dell iDRAC consoles open this way. The tab is private: nothing is kept once it closes, and the page can’t reach XTermium itself.

The capture below is the real app opening a demo console page, served on this computer: no BMC was on hand when it was taken.

~/xtermium $ cat winrm.txt

WinRM, serial and telnet, in tabs.

WinRM opens PowerShell on a Windows host: the local PowerShell (7 if installed) enters a session there, as your Windows login or as a user. The user’s password comes from the session’s shared login or a remembered one, and reaches PowerShell in an environment variable that PowerShell removes at once, never on the command line.

Serial ports and the local shell open in tabs like any other session: ConPTY on Windows, a pty elsewhere. Telnet negotiates window size and terminal type, for switches, routers and serial servers.

~/xtermium $ cat faq.txt

Questions about remote desktops.

~/xtermium $ ls ~/xtermium

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