KDE connect notifications will be ignored by the cinnamon notification applet by default. So disable "ignore transient notifications" from 👉 Right-click On your Ubuntu PC, launch a terminal window. Install KDE Connect for Ubuntu by entering the command given below in the Terminal. sudo apt install kdeconnect. Launch the app on your PC once installed. Next, install the KDE Connect Android app on from the Google Play Store. Download: KDE Connect Android app. Once this is installed, open it, and providing you are in the same network, it should find your GSConnect extension. If it doesn’t, you can press the “Find Device” button to search for it. After a short while, KDE Connect should locate the GSConnect and offer to pair devices. Click this to agree, and on your PC you will find an acceptance UPDATE. To make the password persist, the correct procedure for Kubuntu >= 17.10 looks like this: tick the option "Enable desktop sharing". set a password for desktop sharing. tick the option "Enable Unattended Access". set the same password for unattended access. All settings will persist over KDE sessions. The thing is this never used to be a problem for me, as in KDE Connect worked 100%. But now it will send a single medium-sized jpg file for me, but if I send two, the second one usually gets stuck. If it's a multi-Mb file not certain of even one file. Sometimes I'll have a part remnant, sometimes not. The only weird thing is if you are used to running it on regular KDE you get a system tray icon, but here you have to launch it and from the menu and keep the window open in the background while using it. If you haven't used KDE Connect before you can share clipboard, share notifications, send files, use other devices as remote keyboard or Make sure of course you have installed Craft and sourced your environment file (you can follow the instructions on the Building KDE Connect on MacOS page).. If you are using Homebrew, you might have conflicts with Craft trying to use some of your arm64 libraries, since both the Craft libraries and Homebrew libararies are linked with pkg-config. KDE Connect is such an exceptional and useful tool, and I almost feel like I'm not using it to its full potential. Right now I'm just using it for: playing a playlists remotely, and controlling other media shutting down, suspending my machine and turning its screen off playing my audiobooks Step #4 – Send Files. In Windows, you can either use the KDE Connect window to select a file or from File Explorer you can right-click on a file and then go to Share To -> Send to remote device via KDE Connect. Once the file is received, it will be in your Downloads folder! When a file is received, you'll see a notification like this one. MPV video player can also get KDE Connect-ed (as described here) like so: download the mpris plugin from here (64bit-only), copy the mpris.so file into the directory ~/.config/mpv/scripts, restart session. Clementine is by default accessible through KDE-Connect; it is qt-based and widely popular. QMPlay2 is another multimedia player that is lxJGOS.