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jan-seins
Asked: 2018-07-31 10:03:18 +0800 CST

Sending a SMS from KDE Connect in Kubuntu 18.04

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I set up KDE Connect on Kubuntu 18.04. Ping and the File Explorer are working fine from the desktop. I am able to recieve, read and respond to SMS. However, I have no clue how I can send an SMS, when I try to start the process from the desktop:

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This is my current verions of kdeconnect listed by dpkg -l

ii  kdeconnect                                      1.3.1-0ubuntu0.1                                  amd64        connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma Workspace
gui kubuntu kde-connect sms

3 Answers

  1. I recently wrote an application that can be used to do this, which I call kdecsms.

    It solves a problem I have had for a long time which is that there is no tool that can be started by Thunderbird Cardbook that will open a dialog to send SMS messages.

    It is written in pyqt5 and is simple to install. You can see it at kdecsms - any comments or suggestions would be appreciated, as would any ideas about how to get it distributed with kdeconnect.

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  2. Click on the applet in the top-right of your screen on Ubuntu. You’ll see the options that are available with KDE Connect. One of them allows you to send a text message. Select that and a Compose SMS window will appear.

    There are two boxes: One for the number of the recipient and one for the message. Compose the text message, and send it. Note that kde connect and Ubuntu just pass the message to your phone, which does all the work.

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  3. It's confusing because there are two indicators with kde-connect

    One only appeared after I enabled SMS on both PC & phone and then sent an SMS to myself

    Two indicators

    One of the indicators has Send SMS and the other doesnt

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