KDEConnect: Duplicate Text Notifications

Question

What does it mean when you get a text on your phone, and instead of getting one notification on your desktop about it, you get dozens of identical ones that cover the screen?

I've checked out the KDEConnect troubleshooting sections, Googled and searched stackoverflow, but it's likely my searches for "kdeconnect duplicate notifications" are too naive to produce good results.

This happens on one workstation but not the other (same phone), so my best guess is that I Did Something to break it. Both workstations are the same Linux distribution. Both run the distribution's Plasma desktop and the distribution's version of kdeconnect (Fedora).

Any idea what I need to undo?

Answer 1

You need to go into the app on your phone, go to Plugin Settings, go to Notification Sync settings, and uncheck your messaging app.

I had the exact same problem, and I just figured it out.

It is giving you 2 notifications. 1 for it being a notification, and another for being an SMS because you have Send SMS enabled.

Hope that helps!