rustdesk/rustdesk

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An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.

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Forks: 19.1k
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 95
Avg merge: 1d 3h
Merged PRs (30d): 96

Dominant language: Rust
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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95 open issues indexed

Android: multitouch gesture state sticks after lifting a finger, one-finger pan never starts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16241 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
[Windows] Pasting multiple files through clipboard becomes increasingly slow and eventually fails Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16238 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Bad freezing problem with hardware acceleration, Linux, Wayland, rx580 Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16221 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Wayland DRM/KMS direct capture without portal consent (true unattended remote access) missing for Flatpak and Fedora `.rpm` for GNU/Linux Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16220 · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 14, 2026
hbbs rebuilds its HTTP client (full CA-store parse) for every client heartbeat when calling its own `/api/heartbeat` Open

bug

rustdesk/rustdesk#16195 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Clipboard broken on Wayland (Hyprland) controlled side — --server started without WAYLAND_DISPLAY Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16194 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
macOS: Host cannot exit Privacy Mode locally; requires controller to disconnect Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16192 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Unattended Wayland DRM/KMS multi-monitor capture limited to ~30 FPS Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16175 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Linux: h264_vaapi encoding regressed in 1.4.4 on CQP-only Intel iGPUs — hwcodec never sets rc_mode for vaapi (last good: 1.4.3) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16156 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Windows: Mouse coordinates become offset after moving and maximizing the control window on another monitor Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16139 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Windows: `hevc_qsv` encode failure leaves `monitor0` stuck permanently, reconnect hangs at "Waiting for image" Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16054 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Android: Stuck Shift key forces Chrome to open new windows Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16049 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
[iOS][VMware] Software keyboard input is misread as scan codes in a Windows guest (12345 becomes nm,./) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16027 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[iOS]A tap clicks the previous cursor position before clicking the new position Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16025 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Windows Arm64 EXE installer crashes after directory change Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16018 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
linux: connecting to a login screen floods the server log with "Error of audio service" once per second Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#16012 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
linux wayland: a pending screencast portal request stalls every new connection for minutes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15973 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Kernel paged pool leak (pooltag Gpbm, dxgkrnl) on controlled Windows host - ~2.5GB in 14h, released instantly when RustDesk exits Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15945 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2026
UDP hole punching fails when TCP and UDP egress from different public IPv4 addresses (udp_port carries no address) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15920 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
linux/wayland drm: cursor draws offset from where it acts because the kernel exposes no hotspot on real hardware Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15896 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
[Bug] macOS click count increments across different mouse positions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15878 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Privacy mode prevents lock-after-session-end on macOS, leaving the remote unlocked and visible Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15875 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Injected pointer scaled against XWayland root instead of captured output, breaking cursor on multi-monitor Wayland Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15731 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Client window on mulitmonitor setup always misaligns eventually over the common edge (macOS) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15671 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 24, 2026
UInput keyboard declares keycodes far beyond the X11/XKB limit, crashing gnome-shell/mutter (SIGSEGV) on Wayland Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15642 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026
[Linux/Wayland] Remote mouse/click position is offset when controlling a KDE Plasma 6 Wayland host — multi-monitor; RustDesk 1.4.9 via RPM Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15601 · 24 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Wayland/KDE Plasma 6: host transmits vertically-flipped (180°) screen to all clients on multi-GPU (amdgpu) host; OBS captures the same portal correctly Open

good first issue help wanted

rustdesk/rustdesk#15526 · 13 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 6, 2026
Connecting to client with stored OS password in RustDesk opens other menus Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15261 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 12, 2026
For me typing capitalization doesn't work on Android -> Windows 11/Linux Mint Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15219 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Scrolling problem iPad + Magic Keyboard Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#15209 · 17 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 6, 2026
Right Side Ctrl key is not working Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15182 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2026
JIS keyboard is not well supported Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#15003 · 2 comments · Opened May 10, 2026
Privacy Mode 2 error on Windows when Auto Login (auto unlock) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#14849 · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 19, 2026
Wayland/KDE: Native deb package does not show screen picker dialog — multi-monitor displays as single combined -Debian 13 KDE Wayland Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#14839 · 18 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Cellular clients (Android + Windows) on T-Mobile/AT&T/Verizon 5G cannot connect to IPv4-only self-hosted RustDesk Pro server — “Failed to connect via rendezvous server: Please try later” (works fine to dual-stack hosts and from WiFi/Ethernet) Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#14791 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2026
Vietnamese IME (EVKey) input broken since 1.4.6 on Windows 11 remote (regression) Open

rustdesk/rustdesk#14667 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2026
RustDesk's Android app is copying some keys I press on keyboard Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#14586 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 19, 2026
CVEs Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#14576 · 30 comments · 8 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 18, 2026
The Korean-English key is not functioning properly. Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#14498 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 9, 2026
Intermittent "Sticky" Ctrl Key State in Cross-Platform Session Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#14447 · 7 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Mismatch mouse cursor point Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#14267 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 6, 2026
The image freezes when recording is turned on and if the recording folder is on the local network. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#13786 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2025
Error: no display Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#13373 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Lagging with multiple parallel connections and multiple screens Open

rustdesk/rustdesk#13193 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Block user input does not block touchscreen inputs Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#13189 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 16, 2025
copy local machine from remote machine shared folders can'work Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#13102 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 6, 2025
mouse mode = touch mode (and broken) when iPad external keyboard is attached Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#13011 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 23, 2025
iOS clicks not registering Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#12977 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 20, 2025
Keyboard input error Open

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rustdesk/rustdesk#12293 · 39 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Wayland Cursor shape does not change Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rustdesk/rustdesk#12206 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2025

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