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I made sure that the Share and receive plugin of KDE Connect is enabled and the software installed both on my Android phone and my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop.

However, I can't find how to send a file from my laptop to my Android phone. Sending files from my Android phone to my laptop does work through my phone's share feature.

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orschiro
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Open KDE Connect on the panel, and from there you will see a small folder icon on the right hand side , click on it, it will open you files on your phone.

If you are running Dolphin file manager split the screen so that you have your android on one side and your computer files on the other side. Drag-drop, copy-paste and have fun.

I found that I had to restart my phone after copying the files over to my phone to actually show up on my android system, but copying from phone to computer was instant.

wblm
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I had the same problem in my laptop (Mint 18.3 cinnamon 64bits). I followed the following instructions:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/indicator-kdeconnect
sudo apt update
sudo apt install indicator-kdeconnect kdeconnect


After that you can open KDE Connect Indicator Settings configure it, then open indicator-kdeconnect and the icon should appear in your computer's panel.

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A tip for you: put the indicator-kdeconnect command in your Startup Applications list to enable it at log in, without the need to open it manually.

Fábio
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You could also use kdeconnect-cli. Typically something like:

If needed:

kdeconnect-cli -l
kdeconnect-cli --pair -d XXX

then

kdeconnect-cli -d XXX --share 'path/to/file'

Where XXX is device-id (16 char hex string).

Beyond:

Using GNOME one can add GSConnect

On Plasma I unfortunately have had some issues finding a good interface for SMS, but I might be missing something.

From the "Start Menu" one typically have something like:

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Entering “Mobile Settings” I have:

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Where I can set custom path for received files, and then also set up scripts for that folder (inotify etc.) One can also set up commands etc.

Notifications are sent to desktop (SMS, calls, etc.). I have KDE/GS icon in my head bar:

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Which has a decent SMS GUI interface, share files option etc. Clicking the share icon at the end opens a file selector where file(s) to be sent can be selected.

On the side:

It's easy to hack SMS by using

.cache/gsconnect/XXX/sms.json

.cache/gsconnect/XXX/contacts.json

where XXX is device ID.

which again can be used with ckdeconnect-cli if one desire.

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