Field Monitor
by Marco Köpcke
Access VMs and external screens
About
Field Monitor is a remote-desktop client designed for the GNOME platform.
It is focused on connecting to virtual machines, but can connect to any server supporting the RDP, SPICE or VNC protocols.
It has support for directly connecting to VMs of the following hypervisors:
- Proxmox Virtual Environment
- QEMU/KVM via libvirt
For supported VM hypervisors, Field Monitor also offers options to manage the basic power state of VMs, such as starting, stopping, rebooting, etc.
Additionally, Field Monitor supports opening RDP and Virt-Viewer connection files and quickly connecting to RDP, SPICE or VNC servers via URI.
Permissions
2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- access to a sensitive location (~/.ssh): credentials or autostart
--filesystem=~/.ssh/known_hosts:ro - your SSH agent (can sign with your SSH keys)
--socket=ssh-auth - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to /run/libvirt
--filesystem=/run/libvirt - access to xdg-run/libvirt
--filesystem=xdg-run/libvirt
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.