I’m running OpenSUSE leap 15.5, When I was on the linux mint, I was using warpinator but using it on openSUSE is troublesome and I wish there was a linux version of blip but unfortunately there is not.
I have tried KDE connect, and it never works when I need it to. I just send it to myself on Signal. It’s the easiest, most non-bullshit way.
Use LocalSend. It’s exactly like Apple Airdrop but works on ALL operating systems so no matter what device you have you can easily transfer files.
It’s local, secure and open source.
LocalSend. It’s exactly like Apple Airdrop
This may be super-nitpicky (and I lose LocalSend and use it a lot), but there is one difference between LocalSend and Airdrop. LocalSend requires network connectivity (and requires the devices to be on the same network), whereas Airdrop can work without any network connection (using Bluetooth).
You’re right. LocalSend does require WiFi connectivity. In terms of convenience it’s just like Airdrop, if you have that network.
Maybe one day they could add Bluetooth. Would be cool
I use primitive ftpd on the phone and FileZilla on the PC.
Localsend works well for me when kdeconnect has slip ups
KDEconnect or gsconnect if you’re on KDE or Gnome respectively.
There’s an in-development program for GNOME called Valent. It’s been pretty solid for me. It’s also not a GNOME shell extension, instead a native app.
Oh, nice. Thank you, I’ll take it for a spin.
Went to look into it, and seems to be in very early stages. I’ll set up the flatpak on my computer and laptop to help where I can, seems like a very nice option. Do you know how to integrate it to Android? I could not find anything on that.
Edit: So it works from the KDEConnect Android app. Nice.
My go to hack was quickly running a python http server and connect to it. I can’t remember what the command was exactly. Something like
python -m http.serveror so, then connect to the ip from my phone, heh.Onionshare or syncthing
snapdrop
I use a mix of GSConnect/KDEConnect, Warpinator, and Syncthing. I’ve got a shared “dropoff” folder on Syncthing that lets me easily drop files from one device to another. You’re having issues with Warpinator but if you’re able to figure out the issue there, that’s my second go-to for one-time file transfers. KDEConnect is a bit more fiddly, but I use it mostly for sharing clipboard info and the occasional file when it’s stable enough.
I use kdeconnect with this script: https://github.com/Samueru-sama/kdeconnect-any-filemanager
I switched to Ubuntu and KDE connect works perfectly with it!
syncthing is the easy option if you have some files you always want to have on both. if you just want to access your desktop files from your phone, I recommend Cx File Explorer for Android, it’s a file browser that supports various network file share protocols including Samba and SFTP.
Simply install flatpak then install warpinator
Syncthing, KDE Connect
Currently using the latter
If you are on same network you can use
python3 -m http.serverIt will launch a http server which will serve all the files in your computer.
If it’s anything big I send it to my synology nas. If it’s something small then I honestly just send it through Signal. Although, I do wanna try this kde connect thing out as well.
Kde Connect works very well for this stuff. Sadly, on pop_os! I couldn’t make it work, but I used in in all other distro before.
Yeah I just tried it on my arch desktop and android phone and couldn’t get it to find my devices. Perhaps it’s cause the devices are on VPN?
