RustDesk

What it is

A fork of the open-source RustDesk remote desktop, rebuilt on the passless identity stack. Devices in your fleet verify each other against their own membership chain — the rendezvous server is demoted to dumb NAT plumbing with no say in who trusts whom. If the machine already has a passless identity (Photon, or any other passless app), RustDesk adopts it — your machines appear in the My Fleet tab and connecting is one click. Strangers still get stock RustDesk behavior.

Your own screen

Remote desktop normally means watching someone else's monitor, badly — letterboxed, rescaled, or stretched until the text goes soft. Here the host grows a display for you: connect, and a virtual monitor comes up at exactly your window's pixel size, with its own workspace, taskbar, clock and wallpaper. Nothing is scaled. What you see is the host rendering at your resolution, not a resampled copy of somebody else's screen.

The monitor on the desk is never resized, never scaled, never borrowed — stretching a real display is how remote tools leave the person sitting at it with off-target clicks. And with nothing plugged in and nobody connected, the machine has no display at all. A session brings one into existence; ending it takes it away.

Needs one unused connector to live on — no cable, no dongle. Linux/X11 today; set up once with the script in the repo.