Bug 508079

Summary:	kdeconnect remote input isn't compatible with wayland compositors other than kwin.
Product:	[Applications] kdeconnect	Reporter:	r.kunschke
Component:	common	Assignee:	Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	andrew.g.r.holmes, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description r.kunschke 2025-08-10 10:32:13 UTC

SUMMARY

kdeconnect's remote input system is depending on kwin-wayland. That's why it isn't compatible with anything other than kwin. Most of the rest of kdeconnect isn't depending on a plasma-session in any way. Thats why it would be nice to have a implementation which isn't depending on kwin. That could be done with ydotool.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. install kde-connect
2. connect a device
3. Try out remote-input in a non kwin wayland session.

OBSERVED RESULT
remote-input isn't working.

EXPECTED RESULT
remote-input should work or at least there should be a error message.

Comment 1 r.kunschke 2025-08-10 10:35:54 UTC

I've found a relevant ticket on kdeconnect's own bug-tracker: https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/issues/4

Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2025-08-10 11:58:06 UTC

> kdeconnect's remote input system is depending on kwin-wayland. That's why it isn't compatible with anything other than kwin

That is not the case (any more). KDE Connect uses the RemoteDesktop portal, so it works on any system that implements the portal.

Most notably xdg-desktop-portal-wlr does not implement it currently (https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/2), but that's up to them to add support for it.