nix-jump-desktop-viewer

Unofficial Nix flake for Jump Desktop (the macOS remote-desktop viewer/client), repackaged from its official upstream release and kept current automatically.

Platform: aarch64-darwin, x86_64-darwin (universal macOS .app). Unofficial & proprietary: not affiliated with PhaseFive Systems. This flake fetches the official signed, notarized artifact, verifies its checksum and Developer ID, and installs it unmodified. Jump Desktop is commercial software under its own license.

This packages the viewer — the app you use to connect out to remote machines. To let a Mac be controlled, see the companion repo nix-jump-desktop-connect.

Quick start

nix run github:jakehemmerle/nix-jump-desktop-viewer            # open the app
nix profile install github:jakehemmerle/nix-jump-desktop-viewer

nix profile install puts the .app in an un-indexed location; for a Spotlight-launchable GUI use nix run or the Home Manager / nix-darwin integration below.

Use it in your config

The inputs.nix-jump-desktop-viewer line belongs in your flake's inputs; the rest goes in a module that receives your flake inputs.

# flake.nix
inputs.nix-jump-desktop-viewer.url = "github:jakehemmerle/nix-jump-desktop-viewer";

# Home Manager module (Jake's setup):
{ inputs, pkgs, ... }:
{
  home.packages = [ inputs.nix-jump-desktop-viewer.packages.${pkgs.system}.jump-desktop ];
}

Home Manager links the .app into ~/Applications/Home Manager Apps (Spotlight-discoverable). nix-darwin: use environment.systemPackages instead.

Overlay for pkgs.jump-desktop everywhere: nixpkgs.overlays = [ inputs.nix-jump-desktop-viewer.overlays.default ];

Gatekeeper

The .app stays byte-for-byte identical to upstream (dontFixup = true), so its Apple notarization survives the Nix store and Gatekeeper launches it without warnings. Verified in CI by scripts/verify-signature.sh (asserts Team ID 2HCKV38EEC + notarization).

Auto-update

A scheduled Action mirrors the upstream Homebrew cask into pkgs/jump-desktop/source.json, builds it, verifies the code signature, then commits the bump to main — so the Nix code never needs hand-editing. Update by hand:

./scripts/update-from-cask.sh && nix build .#jump-desktop

GitHub disables scheduled workflows after 60 days with no repo activity; re-enable from the Actions tab if that happens.

License

Packaging code here is MIT (LICENSE). Jump Desktop itself is proprietary; see https://jumpdesktop.com/.

jakehemmerle/nix-jump-desktop-viewer

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