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KDE Connect is the best! Also why isn't the app called KDE Konnekt 🤣 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by BearPear to c/linuxmemes

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I can never keep it connected

Disable battery optimization for KDE Connect on Android. (If you're on Samsung you might be screwed. They did weird stuff with optimizations.)

Edit: Related: https://dontkillmyapp.com/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Samsung user here. I'm working with a Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S7+ and a Dell XPS 9310 running Fedora. Set KDE Connect to never sleeping on the Samsung devices and it will work flawlessly. Transferring files, copy paste between devices, notifications etc just work for me. The only platform where I felt KDE Connect didn't work smoothly was my Windows gaming machine. I gave in and just used the Microsoft phone connect app for that machine but everything else it's KDE all the way.

[–] itsJoelle 7 points 1 year ago

Holy god. Thank you.

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

No like when I go to reconnect it when I want to transfer a file I need to go through the pairing process again because it somehow loses the pairing even though both devices still show each other as trusted.

[–] lawliot 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It stays open on my phone with battery optimizations disabled, but the Windows app needs to be manually started from the tray icon after waking from sleep/hibernate for it to work. I've even tried setting up a scheduled task to run the app when my PC wakes but it just doesn't work unless I open it from the tray or restart the whole app.

[–] Klajan 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You could create a Task to restart Apps that don't work after Sleep, Windows has an specific event for waking up from sleep (don't know the exact one right now though).

I already had to do that to fix my Bluetooth driver in this exact scenario...

[–] lawliot 1 points 1 year ago

I'll do that post my results here.