Ask HN: Are there any good open source screen sharing tools with remote control?

9 points·benkaiser··10 comments

I spent hours last night trying to re-enable remote control on Jitsi's electron app with no luck[1]. Are there any other good open source tools out there for remote controlling a friends' computer screen on a call?

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/877

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RustDesk is generally good, just download it, then get the remote end's ID and password (or have them click Approve) and your in.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/tag/1.2.0

My upvote for rustdesk. It's a great replacement for AnyDesk.

Wow this is perfect. Thank you!

TeamViewer is very very expensive!

The personal version is free.

OP stated "remote controlling a friends computer" which would be the free version

Does it need to be open source, or just free to use ?

There are a few free tools out there.

Can you name a few (open source or not)?

Happy to hear what good free tools are out there too. I know Zoom supports this on their free personal tier, the meetings are just capped at 40 mins.

TeamViewer has been a standard tool for screen sharing and remote control for a while now.

TeamViewer and Google's equivalent (Google Remote Desktop) are 2 that come to mind, and there is functionality built directly in to some versions of Windows.

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