KDE Connect
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miriam_eOh my goodness!
For ages I have been using the clunky method of transferring files between my smartphone and my Linux desktop using a flash drive. Well, tonight I became fully fed up with that and thought to ask ChaptGPT if there was a simple wireless way to do it (without bluetooth, which tends to crash my computer). It showed me several ways, but suggested KDE Connect might be the simplest.
Oh boy! ChatGPT was soooo right! KDE Connect is brilliant! Setting up the computer's firewall to exclude everything except the phone was a bit beyond me (I might have eventually worked it out), but ChatGPT quickly solved that for me too.
Now I can easily transfer files between the machines, use my desktop keyboard to type on my phone, use my desktop to read and respond to SMS messages on my phone, send a "find my phone" message to make it ring (I never lose my phone, but one day I might), and much, much more. I'm only just starting to explore its capabilities.
For ages I have been using the clunky method of transferring files between my smartphone and my Linux desktop using a flash drive. Well, tonight I became fully fed up with that and thought to ask ChaptGPT if there was a simple wireless way to do it (without bluetooth, which tends to crash my computer). It showed me several ways, but suggested KDE Connect might be the simplest.
Oh boy! ChatGPT was soooo right! KDE Connect is brilliant! Setting up the computer's firewall to exclude everything except the phone was a bit beyond me (I might have eventually worked it out), but ChatGPT quickly solved that for me too.
Now I can easily transfer files between the machines, use my desktop keyboard to type on my phone, use my desktop to read and respond to SMS messages on my phone, send a "find my phone" message to make it ring (I never lose my phone, but one day I might), and much, much more. I'm only just starting to explore its capabilities.
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Date: 2026-04-03 02:12 am (UTC)- plug a thumbdrive into one machine
- it becomes visible on that machine so click/tap on its icon
- find the file on the machine and copy to the thumbdrive
- close/unmount the thumbdrive
- remove the thumbdrive from that machine
- plug the thumbdrive into the other machine
- it becomes visible on that machine so click/tap on its icon
- find the file on the thumbdrive and copy to the machine
- close/unmount the thumbdrive
- remove the thumbdrive from that machine
I had not heard of ClarkeConnect (now apparently ClearOS) before. Interesting. Thank you for that. It looks like it might be useful for when I move house later this year. (I'll be running a server.) I shall learn more.
No, KDE Connect is a program that connects the (Android) phone with your computer so you can input from one to operate the other. For example I can write SMS messages on my phone using my main computer's keyboard -- much better than one-finger typing on that little keyboard.. Or I can easily copy photos from my phone to my computer for safe-keeping -- I just tell it to share these photos and copies turn up magically in my computer's downloads folder. Nice.