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I've used the clipboard sync for the past so many years and it works "flawlessly" and transparently.

It just works.

Ctrl+c on your PC, paste on your mobile.

Same on the other side.

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I can confirm, though it's more like 5:1 hit-miss ratio for me (specifically for the copy paste feature) but that could be because of agressive battery optimization I do. I also use it daily for effortless file transfer, and so much more: it truly has enhaced my desktop experience to another level. For example, I can play a YouTube video on my PC and have it pause when I recieve a phone call - all without any kind of physical intervention.

Makes me wonder how many more people who are waiting for AirDrop alternatives haven't tried KDE Connect. Or about the state of FOSS in general.

Also, feels good to see a fellow Kashmiri on HN :)

I have battery optimization disabled for KDE apps, itinerary, connect, neochat.

That helps I guess and now that you mention it, it's the first thing on a new phone so I don't see problems.

The auto-play pause also works transparently.

I'd say the idea of marketing is important. If someone is using Linux, they are already in a niche and you kinda get to know everything.

OTOH, a random windows user who is using it for the first time or someone who uses it in office or for kids, its very hard for them to be exposed to Foss apps.

I mean i've installed libreoffice on hundreds of computers and people still want "ms office". Same for newbies who want first time internet, I show them ddg or something and they expect "show me that google".

Usually when I show DuckDuckGo to someone I start with the bangs, so if they want me to search Google, I show them that use !g in my query, then I do a few searches on other sites like YouTube !yt and Bing !b and Google Image Search !gis so they see what, to me, is the biggest selling point. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs?q=

Yeah. Thanks. I was a long time lurker, read years and only back when the incumbents flipped a switch, I had to take some action.

Yep, mostly works great. The only thing that bugs me is that passwords I copy from KeepassXC get transferred as well, but not deleted from mobile.

I was also concerned about having all my clipboard text copied to my mobile, but you can define a keyboard shortcut to do that only deliberately

please share the whole workflow. your comment has me excited

I'm using GSConnect on Ubuntu. I have first disabled "Clipboard Sync" to avoid it transferring every clipboard content. Secondly, there are a number of actions for which keyboard shortcuts can be defined for a device [1]. One of them is Clipboard Push. I assigned Shift+Ctrl+Alt+V to that, so whenever I execute that contrived key combination, the clipboard is synced to my mobile. I suppose the Plasma implementation has a similar feature.

[1] https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect...

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