A couple of years ago with my old phone (running if I don’t remember wrong Android Pie) and my old laptop (running Manjaro KDE) I discovered KDEConnect and how it could enable a clipboard sharing feature similar to the one Apple provides between Macs and iPhones. It was great! Now, after having changed both my phone (now running Android 14) and my laptop (now running PopOS! 22.04) I wanted to reproduce that magic but I found out that with Android 10 some complications regarding clipboard sharing arrived and so it doesn’t work out-of-the-box anymore :(

I found some saying that the only way to do that was by the persistent notification button (still ok but meh) and some others reccomending some adb commands to make it work as it was before (which would be great but I wanted to investigate a bit more before pasting some random commands to my terminal)… but it was all kinda old content (referring to Android 10 or at most 11), what’s the situation as of today? Do you use clipboard sync? And if so, how?

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
    81·
    8 months ago

    It works flawlessly and instantly.

    Yes, persistant notification but that’s neccessary for any app that runs in background. It’s a feature, not a bug. You only want good apps running in background. Make the notifications silent. There should be a better separation but that’s the current state. You’ll get used to it.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      4·
      8 months ago

      You can turn off the notification entirely and it’ll move it to a submenu of the quick settings panel.

      • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Nice, thx! I’ll test it but is that the same for all the other apps that need a foreground service?

        • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
          5·
          8 months ago

          Yes, that’s basically how Android handles showing you what’s running in the background that you have no other way of seeing. If you swipe away your music player notification it also shows up there. So disabling the persistent service notification of a background service sends it there.

          It’s pretty nice, it’s really out of the way yet visible for you to inspect so apps can’t just run hidden away.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    8 months ago

    To sync clipboard from phone to computer, I use the quick toggle thing (where you can toggle WiFi, flashlight, etc) on the notification centre.

    • shaked_coffee@feddit.itOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      I didn’t know about the toggle, but it seems me much more practical than the notification. I’ll probably go for that one, thank you!