htop
htop - an interactive process viewer (by hishamhm)
xrdp
xrdp: an open source RDP server (by neutrinolabs)
| htop | xrdp | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 38 | |
| 5,482 | 6,186 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 1.2 | 9.3 | |
| over 4 years ago | 8 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
htop
Posts with mentions or reviews of htop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
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htop VS htop - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 1 Jun 2023
- A 17-line C program freezes the Mac kernel (2018)
- Wait time for a process
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Modern alternatives to Unix commands
It was dormant for quite some time but the FOSS community decided to take it over with the original author's blessing.
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I love open source devs from the bottom of my heart ❤️
yes it's true, here's a github issue thread if you want to read more
- The clock is ticking for my Devuan VM (kernel update etc.). Where has htop's iconic “(!)” after 100+ days of uptime gone?
xrdp
Posts with mentions or reviews of xrdp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-21.
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IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
Just a quick note from somebody who's been tinkering with RDP: RDP is so much more than remote desktop, and this ironrdp thing looks cool but is also severely limited.
xrdp supports forwarding audio (playback and microphone forwarding, both ways) as well as local folder forwarding. And I think i also got webcam working (webcam on my laptop forwarded to the browser running on the remote host).
for reference: https://www.xrdp.org/
I hope this implementation gets to a maturity level to make it actually usable for realistic remote desktop usage :)
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Raspberry Pi 4B: Natively Build a 64 Bit Fully Preemptible Kernel (Real-Time) with Desktop
💥 As a final note on this OS, the open-source Remote Desktop Protocol server xrdp does not seem to work properly. After writing the initial OS image, I installed this xrdp server, but Windows Remote Desktop Connection just shows a blank black screen. A few days prior, I tried this same image, but the release date was 04/July/2024, as seen in the screenshot below:
- Xrdp Security Release
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Any way of transmitting audio over VNC?
xrdp
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How do I get an RDP server running on KDE Wayland?
Or maybe it could be done through xrdp somehow?
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Ubuntu ---> Fedora. This time I really doing it.
Part of the reason that RDP isn't better is because it's not an open protocol, part of the reason is because the protocol was built to present a desktop environment that isn't remotely like xorg or Wayland. A lot of the reason is that the RDP project just doesn't get enough effort, because people have multiple ways of sharing desktops, and RDP is just one of them. If you would like to fix that, here's the (currently) 274 open bugs against the Linux attempt to implement RDP https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues
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How can i create a virtual display on X11? [Amd]
Check out xrdp. You can connect then via any rdp client.
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Linux Terminalserver - Virtual Desktops - Nomachine alternatives
If you're willing to compile there are patches to xrdp to include some performance improvements that make a huge difference (more modern codecs). Tracking issue with instructions is here https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1422 it's quite long, so I'd start reading closer to the bottom. Performance has been really good in my testing.
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Extremely high CPU running RDP to Ubuntu Studio 22.04 on Hyper-V VM 🚨💡
This may help. https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/2034
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WSL is amazing 😃🤓
Indeed, this was... 2002? or so (xrdp)[http://www.xrdp.org/] was still not available.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing htop and xrdp you can also consider the following projects:
CodeTriage - Discover the best way to get started contributing to Open Source projects
FreeRDP - FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
NTop - 💻 htop-like system-monitor for Windows with Vi-keybindings.
xpra - Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.
rust-memchr - Optimized string search routines for Rust.
Sunshine - Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight. [Moved to: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine]