https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446908
--- Comment #2 from michael.hubbard...@gmail.com --- Hello Juan, Thanks for this detailed message! I normally dig into release notes before opening a bug. I just found them in the screen with the open button. I see now that this is known behavior in Ubuntu 20.04. I do have a System76 Gazelle with Kali rolling, I will try it that machine. I will let you know what happens! > On Jan 20, 2022, at 16:11, Juan E. Jot <bugzilla_nore...@kde.org> wrote: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446908 > > Juan E. Jot <pbdz8...@duck.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |pbdz8...@duck.com > > --- 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. > > === > > * 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!) > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
