finestra
5 posts
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Finestra from your phone
Finestra listens on localhost, so a phone reaches it the same way a laptop does — one SSH app, one port forward, and the desktop is in the mobile browser. Three screens in ConnectBot, then localhost:7070.
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Close the tab, the shell keeps running
Finestra 0.3.7 lets a terminal outlive its browser. Shut the laptop, come back tomorrow, and the build is still going — with nothing to type and no tmux to remember.
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See Finestra in action
We have an official video showing how to install it, with a quick walkthrough through the basic features in a headless t3.medium instance on AWS
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How Finestra compares to other web desktop projects
daedalOS, Puter, Webtop, xpra, Greenfield and Cockpit are all excellent, and none of them is doing the same job. A tour of the browser-desktop landscape, and the one question Finestra answers.
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What Finestra is
A desktop environment that runs in a browser tab and drives a headless Linux server — a real PTY, a file manager, a system manager, and native Linux applications drawn on the server.