How to Install KDE Connect in Ubuntu LTS
KDE Connect is an application that lets Android/iOS devices communicate with your computer. Its features are as follows:
- Notifications sync (4.3+): Read your Android/iOS notifications from the desktop
- Reply to SMS from your desktop.
- Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your devices.
- Receive desktop notifications on your phone.
- Multimedia remote control: Use your phone as a remote for Linux media players
- Ring your phone from your computer (even when silent), to help you find it.
- Share files and URLs to your computer from any app, without wires
- Virtual touchpad: Use your phone screen as your computer’s touchpad.
- Trigger custom commands from your phone, pre-configured on your desktop
- WiFi connection: no USB wire or bluetooth needed
- Use TLS encryption between phone and computer.
Install KDE Connect in Ubuntu LTS
First, install KDE Connect on your Android phone via Google play store. iOS users can install it from the app store. Then on your Ubuntu computer, open a terminal and run the following commands to install KDE Connect from PPA.
sudo apt update sudo apt install kdeconnect
Once it’s installed, launch KDE Connect Settings from Unity Dash or your application menu. You should also open KDE Connect app on your Android phone.
It will automatically detect your Android phone if they are in the same network. Select your device on the left pane and click on Request Pair.
You will receive a pair request on your phone, select Accept.
Now your Ubuntu computer and Android phone are paired. You can try to send ping between these two devices. Files sent from your phone to computer will be stored in ~/Downloads directory by default.
Nextcloud
You can also use Nextcloud to share files between desktop Linux and iOS/Android.
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in case this isn’t obvious, the Accept/Reject comes in on the notifications list.
worked like a charm on a loaded ubuntu studio pc, thanks
its saying that it does not have a ‘recieve file’.
“release file.” sorry for the error
how to install on DEBIAN distro?? using xfce.
why is this not listed in synaptic?
or better yet, where is the link to the .deb file, so we can just download and click it. i couldn’t find it.
thanks for any info
WiFi connection: no USB wire or bluetooth needed
Use TLS encryption between phone and computer.
Multimedia remote control: Use your phone as a remote for Linux media players
Ring your phone from your computer (even when silent), to help you find it.
Share files and URLs to your computer from any app, without wires
Virtual touchpad: Use your phone screen as your computer’s touchpad.
these featres not working by y pc and phone
Yes, they do not seem to work for me either between a laptop running Ubuntu and and iphone! If it did work how would you enable and use this feature?
Worked great on first try on my iPhone XR and my Ubuntu 24-04-1 LTS. Thanks for instructions!