Starting with Jump Desktop 7.0 for iOS / Android and Jump Desktop 6.0 for Mac, we've introduced a new way to access your computer. We're calling it: Fluid Remote Desktop.
Fluid is our next generation remote desktop protocol designed for very high performance screen sharing. Fluid can share your screen at 60fps while using only 1/10th of the bandwidth when compared to traditional protocols like RDP and VNC. With Fluid you'll be able to manage your servers, work on your documents, watch movies and edit photos and even play games remotely. It's a work in progress and we'll be adding features regularly and quickly. Currently Fluid supports the following features:
- High Performance Desktop Sharing using a fraction of bandwidth of RDP/VNC.
- Audio streaming.
- End-to-end encryption: All communication between devices is fully encrypted (only the devices involved in the connection can decrypt the data).
- Adaptive Quality Control: Fluid will monitor your network connection and automatically adjust quality depending on the bandwidth available.
- Clipboard Sharing: Copy/paste stuff from/to the local system.
- Multi-monitor support: Select individual monitors or just a single monitor. We recommend selecting a single monitor for better performance.
- Fast user switching: Login as one user and then switch to another account without disconnecting. Logging into a machine after restart (i.e. no users logged in) is also supported.
- Local user accounts for authentication: No need for additional passwords, Fluid will use the account on the local computer to authenticate.
How to get started
To get started with Fluid make sure you're running Jump Desktop Connect 5.0 on the machine you're connecting to.
- On the machine you want to connect to, open up the Jump Desktop Connect app.
- Click the Settings icon on the top right hand corner.
- In the Advanced section enabled Fluid Remote Desktop.
- Make sure Jump Desktop Connect is Ready for Remote Access.
- Make sure you're running Jump Desktop 6.0+ for Mac or Jump Desktop 7.0+ for iOS/Android. When you open up Jump Desktop on your Mac or iOS/Android device, you should now see a new, light blue icon for your computer with "Fluid" in the name. Tap it to connect.
- You'll be prompted for Windows Credentials or Mac Credentials when you connect. Use any valid Windows or Mac account on the machine to connect. Accounts with blank passwords are not accepted - so make sure the user account you're logging in with has a password set.
FAQ
Q: Why can't I automatically set the remote resolution to match my local monitor / device like RDP?
A: At the moment Fluid works by matching the remote machine's resolution. You can manually switch the remote computer's resolution by going into the remote computer's Display properties. In the near future, we'll add support for automatically switching the remote resolution however, there is a fundamental difference between how RDP and Fluid work: Fluid is more like VNC: it is limited to the resolutions your remote computer and monitor supports (RDP doesn't have this limitation). For example if your local computer is running at 2560x1536, but your remote computer can't support more than 1920x1080 then you won't be able to switch to 2560x1536. That said - we're working on this. In our private tests we've connected to Windows 10 machines at full Retina resolution (2880x1800) by adding a custom resolution to the graphics adapter and guess what - it looks beautiful and performs quite well! More on this as we make further progress.
As always - any feedback is highly appreciated. Send feedback directly to support@jumpdesktop.com
Comments
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Is Fluid 2.0 ready yet? Can we beta test to help?
@Jump Desktop Support: I think Sebastian raised a valid point here. I'm interested in using jump desktop to connect to a machine which i do not want to have any direct access to the internet.
I think the possibility to use your cloud setup to traverse any kind of Firewall / NAT-Router is a nice and easy solution for many people. It seems that there is a trend to put as much as possible "in the cloud", however IMHO many remote desktop users are fairly advanced users and i guess lots of them actually care about having control over everything in their local network like i do. I would also say that remote desktop is one of the most sensitive / critical things one could do with respect to security.
Due to Jump Desktops lack of supporting RDPs inherent acceleration RemoteFX, i would really love to use Fluid. However being forced to use a cloud service in this case is a no-go for me.
Can you tell us if you have plans to supporting direct fluid connections (or RemoteFX) in the future? In case you need testers here you can for sure add me o the list :-)
I too, like Ch Ka, would love to see a cloudless version of Fluid. I prefer to connect to my home router through a VPN - that only I control. This leaves my home network safely tucked behind an aggressive firewall, unless I and I alone connect via OpenVPN - giving me full access to all of my network, and the machines therein.
Thanks for the comments folks. I'm sorry if we're not rolling out features fast enough. I can tell you that resolution switching, remote audio, remote file sharing and WOL are top priority Fluid features at the moment that we will be implementing incrementally.
How close are we to getting Audio on Fluid? Has beta started for Fluid 2.0 yet?
one more comment.
We are testing Fluid on 3 type of Intel NUC mini PC.
NUC5i5MYHE gen5 i5 2 core 4 thread
NUC7i7BNH gen7 i7 2 core 4 thread
NUC7PJYH gen7 pentium silver 4 core 4 thread
What i realized via test, Fluid using a lot of CPU power but not much GPU.
All of these CPU support quick sync.
Fluid support quick sync and HW acceleration for intel GPUs?
Automatic remote resolution switching will be part of Fluid 2.0. Is your remote server headless by any chance? Fluid 2.0 will still be limited to resolutions available on the remote computer's graphics card. So the experience will not be exactly like RDP (which can basically mimic any resolution).
Hi, is Fluid 2.0 released yet? I would really like the feature to up the resolution when running fluid on my mac to remote into my windows server. If not, is there a release date set in mind? thanks
Just downloaded the app today. Installed on my iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, and MacBook Pro. Am I missing something, or is there still no audio? I find the settings for audio, they're all turned on by default, but I still only get sound through the remote machine, not through the local machine.
Hi,
I'm having an issue where I'm trying to log into a Windows 10 machine on my local network that is logged in with a domain account, I can log in with RDP but not with Fluid. I'm connecting from Android.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jon
I am playing with this and so far so good. The only issue I'm seeing that will probably keep me from using fluid all the time is that when connected to the remote PC, the monitor on the remote PC shows everything I'm doing. This is not very secure for business use. RDP keeps the screen basically locked on when connected remotely.
+1 for a cloudless Fluid feature.
Very happy to hear, I will be using fluid once the resolution switching is available. Can't wait!!
Hi,
Are there any plans to get Fluid support on Linux (most notably Ubuntu)? I have two Linux machines I use VNC on that I'd love to see this technology using.
Thanks,
Jay
Jason is right, if you guys think doing the feature idea will help organization and managmmana then by all means do it. But it needs to be checked more consistently. The resolution change was something that was also supposed to be right around the corner but hasn't surfaced yet from what I can see.
No we dont want more forums that only get checked once a month or less. We want audio. We have been told for almost a year and a half now that audio is just around the corner and still nothing. You guys have hands down the best video and mouse support on Android but it means nothing for gamers without audio.
Where on earth is the audio? That's clearly the feature everybody wants.
Yes that sounds like a good idea, what about resolution changing for retina type screens, has that been implemented yet?
Hi Folks,
Just an update on how Fluid is coming along: over the past year we've added the following features to Fluid:
1. Collaborative Screen Sharing using the new jumpto.me:// URLs. This was released as part of Connect 6.0.
2. Password-less logins (via 'Ask to Share Screen' button) (Connect 6.0).
3. Remote mouse pointer updates.
4. Underneath the covers work: Reliability and infrastructure work to make Fluid more expandable for our future plans.
As you can see we're continuing to add more features to Fluid at a regular pace.
Would it be better if we open up an area where users can request and vote for Fluid features?
So, It's been a year now since I was made a "beta tester" and there's still no fluid 2.0 beta to test. Audio implementation is still a no go. Is there any sort of timeline or progress update for this?
I have the same issue as Jon. Fluid will not log into a domain joined PC (Windows 10) - even with valid credentials. RDP works just fine.
The server is headless.
In the FAQ there was a question; "Q: Why can't I automatically set the remote resolution to match my local monitor / device like RDP?"
I'm still only able to connect to one of my remote servers at 1024 x 768, but when I use the RDP connection it is beautiful and more more higher resolution. In the answer it says this feature is being worked on but it seems like that was a long time ago now. Are there any updates? Is this feature still being worked on?
Hi Ram,
yes it should work, at least Ive tried 1194x834 myself already for a friend!
You have to disable SIP (just google it if you never heard of it) and then you have to run the command like explained on the github site.
Nevertheless Ive got an error saying SIP wouldnt be disabled, which was definitely the case. So Ive downloaded the script, and searched for the part where it is checking if SIP is disabled. Turned out that it did look for an different kind of output when ckecking for SIP. So I just changed it to *disabled* and after that it ran totally fine. If you also get an error saying SIP is enabled and dont know how to modify the script, I can of course send you my version but I would try the official one first.
While running the script you have to choose "Manual input resolution" (before that just 1 for enabling HiDPI and the second step depends on your machine) where you then can enter 1194x834 and maybe all the other high resolutions you wanna use on your Mac. Im not sure right now whether existing HiDPI resolutions would vanish after running the script when not entering them in manual mode. Should be a little bit of try and error, but 1194x834 definitely works in the end and I was always able to restore the original config.
You should also use a tool like Display Menu (App Store) or RDM (Retina Display Manager) to easily select the 1194x834 resolution. Alternatively you can see all resolutions in the macOS monitor settings https://osxdaily.com/2015/08/27/show-all-display-resolutions-external-screen-mac/
The 5.0 Link points to the 9.0.16 Installer. Fluid not an option with 9.0.16
Definitely looking forward to seeing custom resolutions with Fluid. It is the only thing currently preventing me from adopting Fluid! I use an iPad Air as my guest machine and all I have on the remote machine is a 1080p monitor.
Will I be able to use Jump Fluid mode to access a remote Windows 10 PC with dual monitors from an iPadPro (also connected to two monitors locally)? Can you please provide a path forward to enable this setup?
I'm really looking forward to this feature! I work with a compact PC and iPad only when travelling.
Any plans to open source Fluid in the future?
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