Commando

Unofficial Linux desktop client for Desktop Commander. The official app ships for macOS and Windows only. Commando is a native Relm4 + libadwaita client that does the same job: describe an outcome, watch an agent work on your files and terminal.

This project is not affiliated with Desktop Commander.

What it does

• Prompt bar, live action log, and workspace file browser
• Built-in prompt library, knowledge attachments, and file preview
• Local tools: list / read / write / edit / move / search files, run shell commands, and manage persistent interactive processes
• Models via Ollama (default), OpenAI, a ChatGPT subscription, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible server

Requirements

• Rust 1.85+
• GTK 4 and libadwaita
• A model endpoint. The fastest local path is Ollama with any chat model, for example ollama pull llama3.2

On Fedora:

sudo dnf install gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel gcc

On Debian / Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev build-essential

Run

cargo run --release

Settings live in ~/.config/commando/config.toml (mode 600 because it can hold an API key). Do not commit that file.

Flatpak

Build and install the local Flatpak with:

flatpak-builder --force-clean --user --install build-dir app.commando.Commando.yml
flatpak run app.commando.Commando

The manifest uses the GNOME 49 runtime and downloads the dependencies pinned in Cargo.lock while building. Install the SDK first if it is not already available:

flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Platform//49 org.gnome.Sdk//49 \
  org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable//25.08

To use a ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, or Enterprise subscription, install the OpenAI Codex CLI and run codex login, then select ChatGPT subscription in Settings. Commando reuses the local Codex login; no API key is required.

Safety

The agent runs real commands as your user. A small blocklist stops obvious accidents (rm -rf /, mkfs, reboot). It is not a sandbox.

License

MIT