Can KDE Connect synchronise the clipboard both ways?

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In my case, synchronised them by default.

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@lemon73, weirdly, Connect doesn’t add to my KDE clipboard what I copy on AOSP.

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Umm, why is that…?

Incidentally, I’m using it with Android 12 (Xpedia) and KDE neon…

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@lemon73, IDK, else I wouldn’t have asked this. However, it appears that it doesn’t work for my brother, either. Same OS on both smartphone and desktop.

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@lemon73, I’ve just had a look at the AOSP application, and found a really trivial workaround - the “Send clipboard” option: [1]

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Is that what you were referring to?

  1. org.kde.kdeconnect_tp/org.kde.kdeconnect.UserInterface.MainActivity ↩︎

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It’s an Android restriction to not automatically send clipboard contents. It’s been a thing since A10. I think there may be a way to make it automatic on rooted devices, but I’m not sure.

I just move the Send Clipboard tile to a more handy location for me in my pull-down.

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@claydoh, I presume you mean issuetracker.google.com/issues/123461156? If so, play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kpstv.xclipper manages to bypass that restriction via a combination of the AccessibilityService, and some ADB commands when that occasionally fails. [1]

  1. kaustubhpatange.github.io/XClipper/docs/#/android-detection?id=improve-clipboard-detection:~:text=adb%20%2Dd%20shell%20pm%20grant%20com.kpstv.xclipper%20android.permission.READ_LOGS ↩︎

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I don’t think that using “workarounds” was something the KDEConnect devs wanted to use, but I can’t find reference to that in a timely manner. Looking at other tools was discussed, i think.

My suspicion is not wanting to give Google any reason to ban the app.

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