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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Maybe you guys could release a display driver for windows that has the resolutions for common tablets?
I just used the generic VGA adapter with the fluid device (my ipad pro) as the third display and used the max resolution and it was close (2560x1536) but 2880x1800 wasn't available as a mode... its better than nothing, but a new device driver with that mode available would be a good start, right?
Can fluid support remote audio?
It doesn't support remote audio yet, but we plan on adding it very soon.
What Port does Fluid use? How do can I set up a connection through Port-Forwarding?
@Sebastian: Fluid doesn't open up any listening ports at the moment. You can't connect to it using a manual connection via an IP address - instead, you'll have to make sure Jump Desktop Connect is running on the remote machine and you're logged into your Jump Desktop account: https://jumpdesktop.com/go . Also - Fluid will automatically find it's way through your router - you don't need to configure additional networking. If you have trouble connecting over Fluid please let us know.
@Phillip: We're working on Fluid 2.0 and we'll try and add this. Join our beta testing group if you'e interested in testing it out once it's available. Email: support@jumpdesktop.com.
@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 :-)
It seems unlikely now, however, is there any chance that a Wake-on-LAN feature might be coming anytime soon? And I'd like to check out the beta, I'll shoot support an email to that effect.
@Jump Desktop Support:
At the beginning of this thread it states: "Clipboard Sharing: Copy/paste stuff from/to the local system."
I am unable to get this to work with files (it does work with copied text). I have made sure both ends are running the latest version, and I have also tried enabling "Windows Shortcuts" just in case that made a difference (but it does not). Running Windows 10 on both ends.
How do I get this to work?
File Sharing via clipboard isn't supported at the moment, however we're actively working on this for Fluid 2.0.
LOL, you should clarify your clipboard sharing statement then, because copying files to the clipboard is a very common thing. I hope it comes soon, because the lack of common features we use to have with VNC is really killing me. I read in another post by support that VNC is supposed to still be working (although manually installed and activated), but I was unable to get jump to show an icon for it. I feel like my hands are tied behind my back compared to what we used to have.
How close are we to getting Audio on Fluid? Has beta started for Fluid 2.0 yet?
Just a FYI — Windows ALT-TAB (Option-Tab on a Apple keyboard) doesn’t seem to work on Fluid, even though it works fine on RDP. This is the single thing keeping me from using Fluid. Bug fix please?
@ch.ka: We've had a lot of interest for providing a cloudless version of Fluid and this is on our radar. I'm not sure if this is going to make it into 2.0, but this is definitely one of the things we plan to implement in the short to medium term. RemoteFX support for RDP: This is coming too - again, I unfortunately don't have a timeline, but it is planned and will be added.
@christopher: Fluid 2.0 will support file transfer via the clipboard. We just couldn't fit that many things into the first release of Fluid. That being said - you can still use VNC or RDP with Jump Desktop Connect: Open up Jump Desktop Connect and click the settings icons. Then click 'Advanced' and turn on RDP or VNC. Make sure you have RDP / VNC configured on the computer.
@jason: Internal work has started on Fluid 2.0. We don't have a public beta yet though. If you're interested shoot us an email: support@jumpdesktop.com
@chris: Alt+Tab works with Fluid when connecting to Windows (or even Macs). This is not a known issue. Can you please shoot us an email: support@jumpdesktop.com . Let us know which version of Windows you're connecting to and which device (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows), you're connecting FROM.
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.
Same question as the poster above - Audio support for Fluid would literally change my life in so many ways. Help!
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 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.
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?
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).
The server is headless.
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
Is Fluid 2.0 ready yet? Can we beta test to help?
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?
+1 for a cloudless Fluid feature.
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?
Yes that sounds like a good idea, what about resolution changing for retina type screens, has that been implemented yet?
Where on earth is the audio? That's clearly the feature everybody wants.
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.
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.
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