Linux Support

Gavin

January 17, 2024 22:57

Hello All,

I realise that there is no support for Linux, but do the development team plan on creating a, at the very least, a JumpDesktop Connect client for Linux.

I love the app and its handy to be able to remote to Windows and Mac from IOS (or between Mac and Windows), but adding Linux would expand both the capabilities and audience (no?)!

Any tips from anyone, or any news on future developments? To be clear I'd like to be able to use, from Linux JumpDesktop Connect to connect to Mac and Windows...

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Jump Desktop Support October 14, 2026 23:35

Hello,

I’m pleased to say that we are now testing native Connect support for all Linux distros. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Install using these instructions: https://docs.jumpdesktop.com/connect/install/?h=install+conn#applies-to

Jump Desktop Connect for Linux has full support for Fluid 2.0, audio streaming, virtual displays, hardware acceleration for Nvidia, Intel and AMD GPUs, USB redirection.

Try it out! Would love to hear your feedback!

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Abdul Ghani Madid January 18, 2024 13:11

Hi, Thank you for reaching out to us.

At the moment, Jump's automatic configuration via Jump Desktop Connect is currently not supported on Linux (you need a PC or Mac to use automatic configuration).

You'll need to manually configure Jump with your Linux computer's host address. You can enter the computer's IP address by tapping the plus button ("+") on the top right-hand corner of Jump's main screen. Also, be sure to tap the "VNC" button when creating the connection for your Linux computer.

Alternatively, if you want to connect from a Linux Machine, the workaround is you can try and use the Windows version with WINE (Windows emulator) to connect FROM a Linux machine to another machine.

Thank you.

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Fuzail Hamid March 26, 2024 04:09 (Edited March 26, 2024 04:11)

Hi, it’s been a very long time and Linux still isn’t supported:/
Using rdp/vnc is very laggy. The reason most people bought jump desktop is for the smooth experience.

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Gavin March 26, 2024 05:21

Here here @Fuzail, 'common guys, it would be great if you guys could get working on Linux!

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Sesackett April 20, 2024 21:38

Microsoft Remote Desktop App works from MacOs to Debian Linux.

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Jacob Huang May 25, 2025 02:18
JumpDesktop can connect to Linux via either RDP or VNC:
- RDP: xrdp + xfce4 (more light weight than gnome)
- VNC: vnc server (laggy)
For people needs to connect from internet, install Tailscale on both machines. Yes, I would prefer Jump Desktop Connect if available.
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Gino July 05, 2025 14:34 (Edited July 05, 2025 14:34)

+1 for this. Fedora user here.

Love the app but can't connect to gnome-remote-desktop + freerdp.

Would like to stay with Gnome + Wayland + Gnome remote desktop.

Other clients have worked, but unfortunately not jump desktop for rdp.

Here's the logs I took when trying to connect from jump desktop!

Jul 04 20:12:14 Fedora3 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[5188]: [20:12:14:495] [5188:00004a06] [ERROR][com.winpr.sspi.NTLM] - [ntlm_read_negotiate_flags]: NTLM_NEGOTIATE_MESSAGE::NegotiateFlags invalid flags 0x08e0080231, 0x00000205 required

Jul 04 20:12:14 Fedora3 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[5188]: [20:12:14:495] [5188:00004a06] [WARN][com.winpr.sspi] - [winpr_AcceptSecurityContext]: AcceptSecurityContext status SEC_E_INVALID_TOKEN [0x80090308]

Jul 04 20:12:14 Fedora3 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[5188]: [20:12:14:495] [5188:00004a06] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.auth] - [credssp_auth_authenticate]: AcceptSecurityContext failed with SEC_E_INVALID_TOKEN [0x80090308]

Jul 04 20:12:14 Fedora3 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[5188]: [20:12:14:495] [5188:00004a06] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_accept_nla]: client authentication failure

Jul 04 20:12:14 Fedora3 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[5188]: [20:12:14:496] [5188:00004a06] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [peer_recv_callback_internal]: CONNECTION_STATE_NEGO - rdp_server_accept_nego() fail

Jul 04 20:12:14 Fedora3 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[5188]: [20:12:14:496] [5188:00004a06] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_check_fds]: transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - STATE_RUN_FAILED [-1]

Jul 04 20:12:14 Fedora3 gnome-remote-de[5188]: [RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping session

Pawwah July 25, 2025 03:25

I will echo what Gino said as I get the same sequence of errors from journalctl when using Jump on macOS or on ipadOS to connect to a Linux machine running Remote Desktop. In particular, I am connecting to a system running CachyOS/Arch with KDE plasma using krdp as the RDP server. It is clearly an authentication issue with NTML. I have also encountered this problem when trying to connect to a Raspberry PI. I think this has something to do with Wayland as I did not have this issue previously when using desktop environments based on X11.

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Brandon Rosado April 21, 2026 20:33

Just vibecode it at this point.
Open the Jump Desktop repo in Warp.dev and put in a Claude Opus 4.7 API key and say "convert this repo to work on Linux", sync it with a Linux machine, and instal Warp there too and have it fix any errors. Voila hahahaha a good start anyways!

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Austin Nafziger October 14, 2026 23:04

Getting the same issue. Unable to connect to Fedora 44 GNOME remote desktop using RDP from the Mac client. I would love to use one app for all my remote needs. We either need a fix for this issue or a full Jump Connect server for Linux.

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Austin Nafziger October 15, 2026 13:02

@Jump Desktop Support Wow! Thanks a bunch for the heads up on the new Linux support. I have installed it on Fedora Workstation 44 (GNOME + Wayland) and it works perfectly out of the box so far.

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