Remote Touchpad is an open-source utility allows to remote control the mouse and keyboard connected to your computer from the web browser of a smartphone or any other device with a touchscreen.
Remote Touchpad supports Flatpak’s RemoteDesktop portal (for Wayland), Windows and X11.
The app is stupid easy to use. Just launch it, then you’ll see a terminal window opened with an URL along with QR code:
Then use your phone to scan the QR code. As long as you keep the terminal window, you’ll be able to use your phone (tested in iPhone) screen as touchpad input for the computer.
Option 1: Install via Snap package
The utility is available as Snap package. You can simply search for and install remote touchpad in Ubuntu Software for 22.04 and earlier, or App Center for 24.04 and higher:
Option 2: Install via Flatpak package
It also available to install via Flatpak package in the Flathub repository.
Linux Mint and Fedora (with 3rd party repository enabled) can search & install the package from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.
While, Debian/Ubuntu users may run the 2 commands one by one to install:
- Enable flatpak support:
sudo apt install flatpak
- Install the app package:
flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.github.unrud.RemoteTouchpad.flatpakref
Once installed, launch the utility from your system application menu. And, log out and back in if the app icon is not visible.
Then go to the displayed URL (input in a web browser address bar) or scan the QR code in your phone and enjoy!
