gnome bluetooth?

[Tom Horsley]

The gnome-control-center bluetooth page consistently tells me
there is no bluetooth device on the system.

The bluetoothctl command line tool, not only found the
bluetooth on the motherboard, but allowed me to pair a
keyboard successfully (which I am typing on now).
(via a series of absolute gibberish commands I
don't understand, but copied off a web page :-).

Is gnome bluetooth support really that useless, or am I
missing some obscure deamon it needs to run?

[Samuel Sieb]

On 2/26/20 5:01 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> The gnome-control-center bluetooth page consistently tells me
> there is no bluetooth device on the system.
>
> The bluetoothctl command line tool, not only found the
> bluetooth on the motherboard, but allowed me to pair a
> keyboard successfully (which I am typing on now).
> (via a series of absolute gibberish commands I
> don't understand, but copied off a web page :-).
>
> Is gnome bluetooth support really that useless, or am I
> missing some obscure deamon it needs to run?

What does "systemctl status bluetooth" give you?

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:45:24 -0800
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2/26/20 5:01 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Is gnome bluetooth support really that useless, or am I
> > missing some obscure deamon it needs to run?
>
> What does "systemctl status bluetooth" give you?

Seems to be running fine:

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor p>
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-02-26 19:16:42 EST; 12h ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 8463 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 77058)
   Memory: 2.7M
      CPU: 581ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─8463 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

I doubt bluetoothctl would have worked without a lot of
bluetooth infrastructure functioning.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 2/27/20 4:25 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I doubt bluetoothctl would have worked without a lot of
> bluetooth infrastructure functioning.

bluetoothctl works at a lower level.  It doesn't need the dbus service.

Does "journalctl -b -u bluetooth" give you anything interesting?

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:59:27 -0800
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Does "journalctl -b -u bluetooth" give you anything interesting?

As near as I can tell everything is working except the
gnome app. But I could be missing some behind the scenes "user daemon"
that only gets started in a full gnome session, I was just
trying to run gnome-control-center from my fvwm session.

I suppose I'll try running a gnome login one of these days and
see if it works better there.