• Shareni@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    On Linux, you have to be running Gnome or KDE.

    I’ve used it without those issues on cinnamon, xfce, and a variety of of tiling WMs. It fails to connect sometimes, but that happens on KDE as well, and I most certainly didn’t need to reauth every time I connect to the network. So idk what you’re talking about.

    • So, you’re basically running the KDE infrastructure, just not using the KDE WM? Have you done a ps and counted the number of KDE services that are running, just to run KDE Connect?

      Here are the (KDE) dependencies on the Arch KDE Connect package:

      kcmutils 
      kconfig
      kcoreaddons 
      kcrash
      kdbusaddons
      kdeclarative
      kguiaddons
      ki18n
      kiconthemes
      kio
      kirigami
      kirigami-addons                               kitemmodels
      kjobwidgets
      knotifications
      kpeople
      kservice
      kstatusnotifieritem                           kwidgetsaddons
      kwindowsystem
      pulseaudio-qt
      qqc2-desktop-style
      qt6-base
      qt6-connectivity
      qt6-declarative
      qt6-multimedia
      qt6-wayland
      

      When you run KDE Connect, you’re running most of the KDE Desktop and Qt; you’re just not using it.

      Have you ever tried running it headless? I have; it doesn’t work.