@penguin42 What firewall? Where?
Also:
$ gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect
gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect: command not found
This despite following all the instructions for apparently installing GSConnect, and it all apparently succeeding.
@ColinTheMathmo Firewall on your PC that *may* stop connections; but hang on - gsconnect is a *graphical* extension to the Gnome graphical shell; I wouldn't expect it to provide any command line; I'd expect it to show up in thesettings page on Gnome (and file manager if that bit is installed)
@penguin42 OK, so I've hit the "Command" key, typed "Extensions" and a thing shows up.
I seem to have paired the phone and the laptop, and I can transfer one file at a time using the interface on the phone.
But I can't select a collection of files and transfer them all, and it's completely opaque as to how I might see the phone as a filesystem from the laptop.
I going to have to give up for the night. It's late, and I have work tomorrow.
If I can, I'll document carefully a process that I go through that confuses me so people can tell me where and why I'm being stupid.
But for now, I'm going to have to sign off.
Thank you ...
@ColinTheMathmo Great so if it's paired the impossible parts should be fine. If I understand correctly, on Gnome, you should be able to install the plugin for the filemanager nautilus; depending how you installed GSConnect that might be a separate thing to install or it might already be there. If it's working then can you see the directory in Nautilus - whenever, no rush.