When Bluetooth devices are connected, they will also be shown in the pop-up window for the panel icon. Click on that to get the control menu, and select Bluetooth Settings from that window. Some of the details of this are explained in Clem's Segfault blog.ДЄs we have seen with the other desktops, there is a Bluetooth icon in the Cinnamon or MATE panel. They finally got tired of that (many would say that they finalled wised up.), and decided to develop their own Bluetooth management package which would be usable on both Cinnamon and MATE. The Cinnamon package had to be compatible with gnome-bluetooth, which was a moving target, and on MATE they used the GTK+ blueman package, which is also used for Xfce and LXDE above. For several years, the Linux Mint developers put a lot of effort into maintaining separate Bluetooth packages for Cinnamon and MATE. When the Setup process is finished, the mouse should be working - you can even use it to close the window if you want!Д¬innamon and MATE: This is a rather interesting story. You could choose Don't Connect, but then it would be a paperweight rather than a mouse. In the case of a mouse, the only reasonable selection is Human Interface Device Service. I have all of my commonly-used Linux distributions installed on this laptop, so I will simply walk through them and give a description and screen shots of configuring the Bluetooth pointing devices.ДЄfter pairing with the Bluetooth device, the Setup dialog asks you to confirm the type of bluetooth configuration to associate with it. So, to get started on this I am going to use an Acer Aspire V laptop and several different pointing devices - a Logitech V470 Bluetooth Laser Travel Mouse, a Logitech T630 Ultrathin Touch Mouse, and a Kensington Slimblade Trackball Mouse.

Connecting a Bluetooth mouse, for example, typically takes less than a minute and requires about four clicks. I don't want to scare anyone by over-complicating this, because in general it is very easy. I will not be covering that here.Д®ach desktop manager has its own set of packages for Bluetooth management, so they all look slightly different but as I intend to show in this post, the general approach is very similar. If you want/need to manage Bluetooth devices from the command line, the bluez-tools package provides the necessary programs. I am going to be looking at this primarily from a GUI perspective, using the desktop tools to manage Bluetooth devices.

As all of the Linux distributions I am testing here include at least the bluez driver package in the base distribution, I am not going to dwell on that. The first is the bluez packages, which provide the driver stack for Bluetooth adapters, and various utilities for CLI administration of Bluetooth. The second part will then look at a number of other laptops, and will concentrate on the hardware differences without trying to look at every distribution on each laptop.Д«luetooth support in Linux today is divided between two sets of packages. The first part of this survey will use one laptop with a number of different distributions, so that I can concentrate on the differences in Bluetooth support without having to worry about hardware issues. The details are below in the 'Other Hardware and Hiccups' section. After considerable searching on the web, and poking, prodding and testing on my own, I finally got it working. I hadn't noticed this until now simply because I hadn't tried to use any of my Bluetooth peripherals with it. In fact, it has turned out to be even more useful that I expected, especially for myself! While going through and testing all of my laptops for this post, I discovered that Bluetooth didn't work at all on my Acer Aspire V3-111. But there have been some interesting and useful developments in Bluetooth support for various Linux distributions recently, so I think it will be useful to run through a survey of Bluetooth devices and Linux distributions. That is good, because it means that they are all just working so there is not a lot to write about. I haven't written about using my Bluetooth devices on Linux in quite some time.

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