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bslackr

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Registered: 2012-01-27

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[Solved] KDE Connect - Hostname Not Showing Up

Hello, I am trying to set up KDE Connect on my Android phone for the first time and get it to connect with KDE running on my Arch box. The problem is, the hostname doesn't show up on the app on my phone. I ran wireshark on my desktop, and it shows that the app on my phone is sending packets to my desktop, but my desktop is not sending anything back.  I installed kdeconnect from community on my desktop, and even tried the git version from the aur, and set it up according to this guide.  My .xsession-errors doesn't appear to show anything going wrong.

$ grep kdeconnect .xsession-errors
kded(23729)/kdeconnect-kded Kded::Kded: kded_kdeconnect started
kded(23729)/kdeconnect-kded Kded::start: Starting daemon  "/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdeconnectd"
kded(23729)/kdeconnect-kded Kded::daemonStarted: Daemon successfuly started
kded(23729)/kdeconnect-kded Kded::onFinished: Process finished with code= 0 

Anyone have any ideas?

Last edited by bslackr (2014-06-18 03:42:47)

Moparx

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Re: [Solved] KDE Connect - Hostname Not Showing Up

Try starting Avahi if it isn't already running.
I don't recall if it still requires it to function, but it did in the past.

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bslackr

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Registered: 2012-01-27

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Re: [Solved] KDE Connect - Hostname Not Showing Up

I meant to reply to this earlier, but I never got around to doing it. For some reason it just started working. I changed absolutely nothing, I didn't restart my computer or anything, I just gave up frustrated and then came back later to find it working. I'm now happy that it is working, but mad that I don't know why it wasn't working to begin with. In any case, thanks for the suggestion. It looks like I don't have avahi running, by the way.