Broken on newer distros - Mint 18

[x8BitRain]

error: cannot connect to KDE Connect DBus service

OS: Mint 18 "Sarah"

tolong update bro, distro baru nggak bisa dipakai :(

WORKAROUND: Remove your installation of the indicator and kdeconnect and install kdeconnect-plasma instead!

apt install kdeconnect-plasma

Reinstall the indicator via PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vikoadi/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdeconnect

and start do "indicator-kdeconnect" in the terminal to start it again, it should work on ubuntu 16 and mint 18!

[NiklasMerz]

I got the same error After upgrading to Mint 18 Base Ubuntu 16.04

[edouard-lopez]

I was hoping to install it just now. Which version did you tried?

[edouard-lopez]

Environment

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description:    Linux Mint 18 Sarah
Release:        18
Codename:       sarah

Packages Version

dbus

$ apt show dbus
Version: 1.10.6-1ubuntu3

indicator-kdeconnect

$ apt show indicator-kdeconnect
Version: 0.1-0~41~ubuntu16.04.1

kdeconnect

apt show kdeconnect
Version: 0.8-0ubuntu5

Output

$ indicator-kdeconnect
** Message: KDEConnectManager.vala:29: retrying to find KDE Connect DBus service
** Message: KDEConnectManager.vala:29: retrying to find KDE Connect DBus service
** Message: KDEConnectManager.vala:29: retrying to find KDE Connect DBus service
** Message: KDEConnectManager.vala:29: retrying to find KDE Connect DBus service
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
fish: “indicator-kdeconnect” terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

Related

• indicator kde-connect not working #38: indicator kde-connect not working
• Does not work on elementary OS 0.4 beta 1 #42: Does not work on elementary OS 0.4 beta 1

[x8BitRain]

I tried the one from the PPA and I tried building it from the Source, neither worked, and both showed the same error, it's also on a fresh install of Mint 18.

[edouard-lopez]

@x8BitRain last commit on indicator-kdeconnect date from Dec 22, 2014…

[x8BitRain]

It worked on 17.3, also the point of me making this issue to get the guy to fix it.

[edouard-lopez]

Linux Mint 17.3 is based on Ubuntu 14.04 while 18 is based on 16.04.

[x8BitRain]

I KNOW, I made the issue to tell the author that the fuckin thing doesn't work on 16.04 based systems.

[t0rx309]

I've spent hours trying to get it to work. I was trying different repos and all kind of configurations, I can tell what finally helped me to start kdeconnect. I might work for you as well. Uninstall all kdeconnect packages: indicator-kdeconnect kdeconnect kdeconnect-plasma . Now get deb from this site
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/kde-connect-sync-android-linux/ install it and then install indicator-kdeconnect again. Hopefully this will work for you...

[rodneyrod]

Has anyone here checked out the KF5 branch to see if that works with the libraries included with 16.04?

[Oneiriac]

On Fedora 24 (Gnome 3.20.4) the only way I've gotten this indicator to work is by building from this fork: https://github.com/Bajoja/indicator-kdeconnect . The KF5 branch didn't work, and neither did Albert Vaka's fork.

I was already paired using the KDE Connect Settings app (kcmshell5 kcm_kdeconnect) so I didn't test whether you can pair from the indicator. However, everything works fine (Battery percentage, Device Reachable and Trusted, Send file, Find my phone) except Browse device; it opens the correct directory (~/.config/kdeconnect/[device ID]/kdeconnect_sftp/[device ID]), but this directory is empty.

[ghost]

i havent followed Bajoja's fork yet, but when Will Vikoadi update this for the newer distros? or atleast check Bajoja's code to see if everything is ok??

anyone?

[rndmh3ro]

@Beast141 the last commit from vikoadi is almost 2 years old, so you probably won't get any updates here. Better switch to bajojas fork now, its working for me on Arch Linux.

[varlesh]

PPA Ubuntu 16.04 / Linux Mint 18 / elementary OS Loki:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:varlesh-l/indicator-kdeconnect
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdeconnect indicator-kdeconnect

[samandiriel]

I can confirm that varlesh's ppa version is working on my fresh Mint 18.1 + MATE install (x64 AMD)

Yayyyyyyy!

[ghost]

@varlesh thank you so much, its working now i can see the indicator! However there is a plugin in the phone app that says Send SMS, send text messages from your desktop, it is ticked and enabled - but im assuming this feature is not yet available in kdeconnect on Ubuntu? cause i cant find the option to view/send text messages.

any news about this? thanks

[ob1kenobi]

YES. It worked fine on Peppermint 7

[KennyLauchlan]

@varlesh
Thnks very much, solved an headache here, kdeconnect is a must have for me in the Linux world
I do wonder, can you shed some light on why the 'browse device' shows an empty folder? and how to fix/view device files

[ghost]

@KennyLauchlan
Vikoadi's ppa and Varlesh's ppa is no longer updated as often.. The new official ppa is this one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/indicator-kdeconnect
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdeconnect indicator-kdeconnect

from
https://github.com/Bajoja/indicator-kdeconnect