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I'm running OpenSUSE leap 15.5, When I was on the linux mint, I was using warpinator but using it on openSUSE is troublesome and I wish there was a linux version of blip but unfortunately there is not.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 4 months ago (4 children)

KDE Connect is amazing. Also works without KDE.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This just stops working on either my Linux laptop or my phone randomly. I'll need to kill the process and restart it Does anyone know how I can fix this? Battery optimisations are turned off on the phone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you turned off battery optimisations globally, it might still kill it. You specifically have to go into app options and allow it to be always on, as well as allowing all it's notifications

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I meant optimisations for KDE Connect in particular. It has a persistent notification enabled as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It kind of needs that (you can use trucks to make it go away) because of the android model of apps where an app may get yeeted off a cliff if it's not currently showing a notification. Again, you can pull some tricks but for the average user they have to do it this way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

KDE Connect to my iPad just stopped working for me a few months ago. Do you know of any possible reasons?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

could be something fucked with your network settings or ports. if you have 2.4 and 5ghz modes try connecting your ipad to the mode different from the one used by your pc, works for me (edit: on android phone) and I still have no idea why

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Doesn't seem to work.. Whenever I send a file from my ipad,

  1. KDE Connect simply stops connecting correctly.
  2. GSConnect keeps connection, but the file always fail to send.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

ya it's annoying as shit and lack of almost any documentation doesn't really help 🫠

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

KDEC has been horribly buggy on IOS in my experience. Never connecting or showing devices only occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah it doesn't. It works great on Debian KDE and my Android phone. It does not work on Mint Cinnamon and my Android phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Works on xubuntu. Though restarts are a common solution to no connection. That's fine, I'd rather not spend extra juice to keep them Wi-Fi tethered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is there a way for KDE connect to connect PC with phone if phone is on WiFi and PC on LAN going trough different router in the same network?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Wont go inte networking, but assuming networking works between them you can manually specify an IP in the mobile app:

Add a device -> three dots in top right -> add devices by IP.

Bonus: This also works over tailscale and similar apps, making it so you can have an always on connection despite not being home.