https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446908
Juan E. Jot <pbdz8...@duck.com> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Juan E. Jot <pbdz8...@duck.com> ---
>From what I can tell under the TestFlight app, the KDE Connect developers are
aware, at least as of builds 0.2.0(2) and 0.2.0(5) of the iOS app, that LTS
kernels (but not non-LTS kernels such as those shipped with Ubuntu 20.10, 21.04
& 21.10) disconnect intermittently from the iOS app. I myself had been running
GSConnect (a Gnome build of KDEConnect) on Pop!_OS 21.10 (based on Ubuntu
21.10), as well as KDEConnect on Manjaro XFCE 21.2.1 without issue, and then
tried KDEConnect on Linux Mint 20.3 (based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS), finding the
same issue as you did (more detail below*).
I set up a KDE Connect account the same as you to report the bug, then read the
0.2.0(2 and 5) release notes, only to find it known to the KDE developers. Good
job being on it as to current limitations, folks!
But let me add my voice to yours, michael.hubbard999, just to ask KDE
developers whether there is progress being made or a timeline, for update to
this behavior. I imagine that with 22.04 LTS coming up in April (for mainline
Ubuntu, not for derivatives like Pop!_OS and Linux Mint right off the bat),
that fixing it for the 22.04 LTS kernel is the goalpost. But I would love to
hear of testing a solution for 20.04 LTS or failing that, a good backport of a
solution for 22.04 LTS. That way, we'll be able to use KDEConnect on 20.04 LTS
& its derivatives (such as my Linux Mint 20.3 installation) before they
eventually update the kernel base. This is an individual hope partially due to
other (graphical; see below) limitations^ of my aged system.
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* Essentially as release notes have described, on my Linux Mint 20.3 (with
kernel 5.4.x) partition, KDEConnect cannot successfully initiate connection.
KDE Connect 0.2.0(5) on iOS *can* initiate it to Linux Mint, but Linux Mint
announces a disconnection randomly within a few seconds, and KDE Connect on iOS
never moves Linux Mint from the blue list of Discovered Devices to a green hue
of connection (likewise, never having connected, it never shows up as a red
Remembered Device). This is true with the firewall on or off, with ports
1714:1764 allowed or not, UDP or TCP. Neither any applets nor
gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect help this behavior, as they are all about GUI
rather than connection behaviors.
Again, expected behavior for KDEConnect iOS 0.2.0(5) is fulfilled in connection
with GSConnect on Pop!_OS 21.10 (with kernels 5.11.x, 5.13.x and 5.15.x) and
with KDEConnect on Manjaro XFCE (with kernels 5.13.x and 5.15.x; *not tested*
with Manjaro's latest 5.10.x LTS kernel!) on other partitions on the same
machine. In a kudos to System76 &/or possibly Canonical if not Linus himself,
this not only works as expected on x86_64, but also on arm64 on a Raspberry Pi
4 running Pop!_OS 21.10 (with kernel 5.13.x, so far)!
Lastly, I lack any Android hardware with which to test against that mobile
version of KDE Connect.
^ (Basically, I'm afraid I'll lose the full support Linux Mint offers--and
uncommon present-day recommendation they make!--for the nvidia-340 driver my
ancient laptop needs for any worthwhile performance at all, even in web
browsers, these days. This is software completely unrelated to KDEConnect in my
one-off use case, but I simply include it to show my motivation for this hope.
To digress further if you're interested, I address this graphical issue on
Ubuntu kernels higher than 5.4.x by using kelebek333's nvidia-legacy PPA on
launchpad; hopefully support for that software extends to whatever kernel 22.04
LTS ends up using!)
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