New to Trillium: Link to TigerVNC Viewer

[r19rcv20]

Hey everyone! i am new to trilium and have a question about links. essentiall i am creating a table on my homelab and with each system name, I want to be able to click the name and it brings up the VNC Viewer and login. How would I go about that? thank you

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @r19rcv20! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the Trilium team.

You can create clickable links in Trilium Notes by selecting the system name in your table and using the link tool (CTRL-K or the link icon) to add a URL. If TigerVNC Viewer (or your OS) is set up to handle a custom protocol like vnc://, you can use a link such as vnc://hostname:port—clicking it should prompt your system to open the VNC client and connect, provided the protocol is registered on your machine. This works best in the Trilium desktop app (Electron) and may require extra setup in your OS to associate the vnc:// protocol with TigerVNC Viewer. In browsers, launching external apps via custom protocols is often blocked or prompts for confirmation due to security restrictions. Trilium itself does not have a built-in feature to directly launch external applications from a note or table; this is limited by browser and OS policies, not by Trilium’s core features (source).

If you need to automate more complex actions (like passing credentials), Trilium’s scripting and integration features are mainly for internal automation and not for launching arbitrary external apps (source). If you’re using the desktop client on Windows or Linux, you might have more flexibility, but direct integration for launching TigerVNC Viewer from a link is not natively supported.

If you let me know whether you’re using Trilium in a browser or the desktop app, and what OS you’re on, I can give more specific advice for your setup.

To reply, just mention @dosu.

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[eliandoran]

From what I see, @dosu is right in the sense that we do allow vnc:// links so it should work provided your system correctly registers this protocol.

[dosubot[bot]]

That's correct—Trilium supports vnc:// links, so as long as your system has the vnc:// protocol registered (for example, with TigerVNC Viewer), clicking the link in Trilium should prompt your OS to launch the VNC client. This works best in the desktop app; in browsers, launching external apps via custom protocols may be blocked or require confirmation due to security settings. If you run into any issues getting this to work with your setup, let me know your OS and whether you're using the desktop or web version, and I can help troubleshoot.

To reply, just mention @dosu.

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