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[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

So, you're basically running the KDE infrastructure, just not using the KDE WM? Have you done a ps and counted the number of KDE services that are running, just to run KDE Connect?

Here are the (KDE) dependencies on the Arch KDE Connect package:

kcmutils 
kconfig
kcoreaddons 
kcrash
kdbusaddons
kdeclarative
kguiaddons
ki18n
kiconthemes
kio
kirigami
kirigami-addons                               kitemmodels
kjobwidgets
knotifications
kpeople
kservice
kstatusnotifieritem                           kwidgetsaddons
kwindowsystem
pulseaudio-qt
qqc2-desktop-style
qt6-base
qt6-connectivity
qt6-declarative
qt6-multimedia
qt6-wayland

When you run KDE Connect, you're running most of the KDE Desktop and Qt; you're just not using it.

Have you ever tried running it headless? I have; it doesn't work.