TwinDesk

Desko is an open-source desk dashboard that turns a spare phone into an always-on display. A lightweight Python process on a PC collects data and pushes it over WebSocket to a browser tab on a phone on the same Wi-Fi network, with no phone app, account, cloud service, or build tooling required. The dashboard cycles through five scenes: an idle view with clocks, weather, battery, latency, and PC uptime; a music view with album art, synchronized karaoke lyrics, and PC playback controls; a statistics view with CPU and GPU load and temperatures, memory, network activity, sparklines, and an optional running game; a development view with workspace, Git branch status, changed files, cursor position, commits, and lines, sourced from VS Code or Git; and a focus view with a server-side Pomodoro timer. Scenes can be manually selected or pinned, and widgets hide when their underlying data sources are unavailable.

RustDesk is an open-source remote desktop application written in Rust and designed for self-hosting as an alternative to TeamViewer. It provides remote screen control, file transfer, clipboard synchronization, and TCP tunneling across major desktop and mobile platforms. Users can use the project's rendezvous and relay server, operate their own, or write a custom rendezvous/relay server; the project provides downloadable binaries and build instructions.

DEsk is a beta Wayland desktop environment for Linux built on wlroots. It presents the desktop as a realistic skeuomorphic desk: application windows appear as paper sheets that can be folded or discarded, the dock is a drawer, applications are organized in binders on a bookshelf, notifications arrive in a post box, and system controls are built into the desk. It includes a compositor, session manager, launcher, notification centre, lock screen, settings application, calendar, memo pad, multi-monitor support, Xwayland support, and standard desktop integrations. The room is ray-traced with GLES 3 on the GPU when available, with a CPU renderer and a 2D fallback for systems without suitable graphics support. DEsk can be installed as a login session on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Fedora and derivatives, or built with Meson; its installers can also install the recommended desktop programs. The project is distributed under the MIT license and is described as an early release with expected rough edges and ongoing changes.

Sill is a free, open-source remote-desktop app for showing one window or the whole Mac desktop on an iPhone or iPad. It captures the selected content with ScreenCaptureKit, encodes it as HEVC with VideoToolbox, and sends it over an encrypted direct connection; taps, clicks, scrolling, keyboard input, trackpad gestures, and Apple Pencil input are sent back to the Mac. Devices can connect over a local network, USB, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, or a user-owned VPN such as Tailscale, with one-time pairing by scanned or entered code and no account or intermediary server. Sill for Mac requires Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later, while the iPhone and iPad app requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. It is distributed as a notarized Mac download, an App Store app, Homebrew cask, or source code, and is licensed under Apache License 2.0.