I tried posting a bug on the bug tracker, but there has been no reaction, so I’m falling back to: maybe someone here will be able to help me find a workaround.
About a week ago, I ran ujust update on my system then rebooted when prompted. There wasn’t a major OS version or anything. I honestly don’t know what updated – the output from that command is pretty unclear, and even if it were clear, I would have forgotten quickly. I think it may just have been a few brew packages?
Anyway, since then, KDE Connect hasn’t been working right.
My phone (Samsung Galaxy S22+) can ping my PC, and vice versa. My phone can run my saved commands on my PC just fine.
But the main thing I use KDE Connect for, controlling my mouse and keyboard from my phone, doesn’t work anymore.
There aren’t any error messages. From the phone, everything seems to be working fine. But the mouse cursor on the PC doesn’t move, and keyboard inputs aren’t doing anything on the PC either. Also, I don’t really use this feature, but clipboard syncing doesn’t seem to be working either.
I have tried unpairing and re-pairing. I have tried uninstalling the Android app and re-installing it, restarting setup from scratch.
I could not, however, try uninstalling and reinstalling KDE Connect on the PC. When I find it in the start menu and click Uninstall or Manage Add-Ons in the context menu, it only opens Bazaar and says “Could not find app” (ID ‘org.kde.kdeconnect’ was not found).
I assume it just can’t be uninstalled since it comes with the system.
System data (from kinfo command) :
Operating System: Bazzite 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.1.3-ogc5.1.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT