RustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based Connection Manager

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 15 August 2026 at 07:55 AM EDT. 6 Comments
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RustConn has been in development for a while now as a modern GTK4 connection manager supporting a variety of protocols like SSH, RDP, VNC, Telnet, and more. RustConn 0.20 was released this week as the latest major step forward to this Rust-based connection manager leveraging the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita.

RustConn 0.20 brings a variety of improvements to its UI elements, support for selecting between the different GTK renderer options, and builds off the fixes and enhancements from a long line of recent RustConn 0.19.xx releases. From my testing of RustConn over the summer it worked out great and worthy of a shout-out.

This Week in GNOME notes that RustConn recently gained detachable session windows, split view improvements, session logging with rotation and redaction, automatic login for some protocols, and more.

RustConn 0.20


Those wishing to learn more about this modern connection manager for the Linux/GNOME desktop can do so via GitHub or Flatpak binaries via Flathub.
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