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[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 165 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

KDE Connect: An app for iOS, android, pretty much every flavor of linux, windows, etc. that lets you connect any devices together to share files, show notifications of other devices, use your phone as an input device(keyboard, mouse), control multimedia applications(start, play, stop, etc.), trigger commands, and everything else if you make a plugin for it.

This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?

[-] cole@lemdro.id 14 points 1 week ago

no! there is GSConnect which is a gnome extension that provides the protocol as well

[-] Kagu@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I use it on Fedora with GNOME. Its available as a GNOME extension

[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

No, it works on other setups too! I have used the regular kde connect app with enlightenment DE for example.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

It even works on windows

[-] iveseenthat@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

I have it running on my i3wm

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