link2linux 0.2.0

Clipboard sharing and file transfer between the phone and the desktop.

Added

• Clipboard sharing. Text you copy on the computer lands on the phone's
  clipboard. The phone sends its clipboard when you ask: in the app, from a
  quick settings tile or the connection notification, or with "Copy to
  computer" in the share sheet and the text selection menu. The computer
  follows its clipboard in the background on GNOME, KDE, wlroots desktops
  and X11, and elsewhere shares when its window is focused or when you
  click Send. Passwords a password manager marks as secret stay on the
  computer unless you turn on "Share passwords". Clipboard sharing is off on
  the phone until you turn it on.
• File transfer. Send files from the phone with "Send to computer" in the
  share sheet, which always asks first, or from its Files screen; send
  them from the computer by dragging them onto the window or with "Send
  files". Received files go to Downloads on both devices. Each file is
  checked against its SHA-256 before it is kept, a received name never
  overwrites a file, and a transfer cut off by a lost connection resumes
  where it stopped within the hour. Files are off on the phone until you
  turn them on; Android 8 and 9 also ask for storage access.

Install

Linux desktop, 64-bit x86

Install this version in one line. It picks the .deb on Debian and Ubuntu, the
.rpm on Fedora and openSUSE, and the AppImage elsewhere:

curl -fsSL https://codesensei-tushar.github.io/link2linux/install.sh | L2L_VERSION=v0.2.0 sh

Or download a package below: link2linux_amd64.deb, link2linux.x86_64.rpm,
or link2linux-x86_64.AppImage (which needs FUSE 2).

Android phone, 8.0 and newer

Download link2linux.apk on the phone and open it. If Android asks, allow your
browser to install apps.

Then open link2linux on the desktop and scan the QR code it shows with the
phone.

Verify

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing
gh attestation verify link2linux_amd64.deb --repo codesensei-tushar/link2linux

What's Changed

• Point the website at 0.1.2 by @codesensei-tushar in #212
• Share the clipboard: protocol, and copying between the phone and the desktop from the phone side by @codesensei-tushar in #213
• Read, write and watch the Linux desktop clipboard in the background by @codesensei-tushar in #214
• Share the clipboard from the desktop app by @codesensei-tushar in #215
• Fix the desktop clipboard review findings by @codesensei-tushar in #216
• Fix the Linux clipboard review findings by @codesensei-tushar in #217
• Keep reading while writing on the phone: one writer per session by @codesensei-tushar in #218
• Send files: protocol, and the phone side by @codesensei-tushar in #219
• Let held phone text win on focus-only desktops, and make clipboard reads wait for phone writes by @codesensei-tushar in #220
• Fix the phone file-transfer review findings by @codesensei-tushar in #221
• Send files from the desktop app by @codesensei-tushar in #222
• Fix the desktop file-transfer review findings by @codesensei-tushar in #223
• Ask before opening any received file that isn't a plain document, and tidy the last file-transfer edges by @codesensei-tushar in #224
• Release 0.2.0 by @codesensei-tushar in #225

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.2.0