Documentation

How PluggedDesk works

Written for the person doing the work: what each thing does, what it does not do, and where the edges are.

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Getting started

From a license key to a first remote session, in about ten minutes.

Verify a download

How to check that an installer is the one that was released, before you run it.

Licenses and seats

What a license key is, what a seat is, how an installation is activated, and what happens when a license ends.

Updates

How PluggedDesk finds a new release, how it decides to trust it, and what it does when you agree to install it.

Workbench

Tabs and groups

Sessions open in tabs, tabs live in groups, and groups can be split, rearranged and moved to other windows.

The workspace

Folders, computers and connections, how settings are inherited, and how to bring in what you already have.

Display

Resolution, fit and scale, three settings that are never called by each other's names.

Clipboard and keyboard

What crosses between your computer and the remote one, what is refused, and where your keys go.

Appearance

The colour themes, and what the window remembers about how you arranged it.

Security

Credentials

Where a password is while you type it, while it is used, and afterwards.

Certificates

What PluggedDesk does with a server's certificate, the three settings, and what each one does not protect you from.

Signing in

How PluggedDesk signs in to PluggedHub through Exprezoe Identity, what it keeps afterwards, and how to sign out.

Reference

Keyboard shortcuts

Every shortcut PluggedDesk answers to. The same list is in the application, under Help.

Troubleshooting

What PluggedDesk says when something does not work, what it means, and what to do.

The update and license API

The endpoints PluggedDesk itself talks to, for people who run a mirror, automate a deployment or want to know exactly what is sent.