Hello!
I am enjoying the ‘Virtual Display’ feature in KDE Connect to use a laptop as another (remote) monitor for my dekstop. Problem is the cursor does not display on the virtual display. I can drag windows over there but the mouse doesn’t render.
(both machines are wayland + plasma)
I tried the “Show Local Cursor” button, but it does nothing as the local (laptop) mouse always renders. I guess I would want a “Show Remote Cursor” button? If the cursor is supposed to show the remote mouse, then I will should file a bug. If it is not implemented, then a feature request instead.
Also, “Remember this certificate” doesn’t seem to remember between connections. I hit remember but it always asks every session. I don’t see any errors in log. Is it because the user connection hash thingy changes each time I connect? When I hit connect it seems to have a format of rdp: <user>:<hash>@<ip>:<port> where the <hash> is different each session.
Also, does KRDC have a “keep awake” setting while connected? The laptop (virtual monitor) device wants to go to sleep after a while, so I have to hit “Manual Block” in Power and Battery tray icon settings under “Sleep and Screen Locking after Inactivity”.
Just discovered and interesting quirk.
If you shake the mouse it becomes larger so you can find it. That’s not the quirk, that is expected behavior. But the quirk is that in the enlarged mode, it renders on the remote screen “Virtual Display”!
So current work around to see cursor on Virtual Displays is to shake it to make it big then use it while its in big mode. Once it shrinks back to regular size, it disappears completely.
This also confirms to me its a bug, and the cursor should be rendering. Will file an official bug report.
hmm. it also sometimes randomnly disconnects. then trying to reconnect it says:
Remote device does not have a VNC or RDP client (eg: krdc) installed.
Cannot start a request without a resolution.
Now this is false as it is clearly installed, and was just working. But the second line saying it cannot start a request without a resolution.
Do I interpret that as “screen resolution” or “problem resolution”?
Curious why it can no longer find the krdc client after it disconnects… perhaps another bug.
Documenting as I go…
Have you tried using krfb-virtualmonitor command instead of kdeconnect? That should keep the virtual display available after disconnection.
krfb-virtualmonitor --name laptop --resolution 1920x1080 --password your_password --port 3389
The cursor doesn’t show up for me either, and for some reason the connection is very slow (even with the two computers connected to each other via Ethernet) to be useful but I don’t know what the problem is.