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I miss KDE Connect every time I'm on windows. When watching a movie on the laptop, it's so handy to use the remote control to pause/play/change sound or move t

I miss KDE Connect every time I'm on windows. When watching a movie on the laptop, it's so handy to use the remote control to pause/play/change sound or move the timeline. Now some stuff don't work so well: file transfer is flaky sometimes, sending a text from the laptop has a very primitive UI and I never seem to be able to share the clipboard when I want to. But I love to ping my phone when it's lost in the house.

Zancarius 6y ago
> I never seem to be able to share the clipboard when I want to. It usually works for me, but the problem I have is that sometimes the devices lose sync with each other if they've been off for any length of time. Opening the KDE Connect settings typically fixes this, but it's not ideal! I absolutely love KDE Connect, though. Being able to copy text from a laptop to a desktop or use my phone to pause music if I happen to leave for a walk and forgot to stop it is great! I haven't used it yet, but they also have presentation controls for your phone including a pointer that uses the phone's instrumentation to move an animated circle across the screen. Love it!
- krut-patel 6y ago
  > the problem I have is that sometimes the devices lose sync with each other if they've been off for any length of time. Opening the KDE Connect settings typically fixes this, but it's not ideal! A slightly better solution I have found helpful is to pull down Yakuake (or krunner) and run `kdeconnect-cli --refresh`. Beats having to open a QT window, only to be closed off immediately.
  - Zancarius 6y ago
    Awesome. I'm going to try that next time. Thanks much!
smoldesu 6y ago
> I miss KDE Connect every time I'm on windows. Poke around in here[1], I'm certain there's a build that works for most modern Windows 10 machines in here somewhere. [1] https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdeconnect-kde/ https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdeconnect-kde/

Zancarius 6y ago

> I never seem to be able to share the clipboard when I want to. It usually works for me, but the problem I have is that sometimes the devices lose sync with each other if they've been off for any length of time. Opening the KDE Connect settings typically fixes this, but it's not ideal! I absolutely love KDE Connect, though. Being able to copy text from a laptop to a desktop or use my phone to pause music if I happen to leave for a walk and forgot to stop it is great! I haven't used it yet, but they also have presentation controls for your phone including a pointer that uses the phone's instrumentation to move an animated circle across the screen. Love it!

krut-patel 6y ago
> the problem I have is that sometimes the devices lose sync with each other if they've been off for any length of time. Opening the KDE Connect settings typically fixes this, but it's not ideal! A slightly better solution I have found helpful is to pull down Yakuake (or krunner) and run `kdeconnect-cli --refresh`. Beats having to open a QT window, only to be closed off immediately.
- Zancarius 6y ago
  Awesome. I'm going to try that next time. Thanks much!

smoldesu 6y ago

> I miss KDE Connect every time I'm on windows. Poke around in here[1], I'm certain there's a build that works for most modern Windows 10 machines in here somewhere. [1] https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdeconnect-kde/ https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdeconnect-kde/