Mount a MTP in KDE

Sumary

Manjaro with KDE has a problem: it doesn't mount the MTP on the linux filesystem. Because of that it is not possible to manage the MTP files from the terminal. Because of that it is necesary to install a tool which allows to mount the MTP.

Procedure

  1. Install jmtpfs using: pacman -s jmtpfs
  2. Connect the MTP device.
  3. It is possible to see the service usingĀ ps -aux | grep kiod6
  4. Stop the KDE MTP service using killall kiod6
  5. Mount the MTP device usingĀ jmtpfs /mountpoint/path