I'm running F20 XFCE and the bluetooth app leaves a lot to be desired. I've been using Blueman before upgrading and it was great. Currently I'm using the KDE systray app (bluedevil?)
There's no obvious way to install blueman; yum just says it was deprecated by bluez -- which is not true (it only is in the sense that the older blueman version is not compatible with bluez5)
Does anyone know how to get blueman running (hopefully without having to compile it)?
Thanks
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:15:07 -0700 Konstantin Svist fry.kun@gmail.com wrote:
I'm running F20 XFCE and the bluetooth app leaves a lot to be desired. I've been using Blueman before upgrading and it was great. Currently I'm using the KDE systray app (bluedevil?)
There's no obvious way to install blueman; yum just says it was deprecated by bluez -- which is not true (it only is in the sense that the older blueman version is not compatible with bluez5)
Right, Fedora moved to bluez5, and blueman doesn't work with bluez5.
Does anyone know how to get blueman running (hopefully without having to compile it)?
You would not only have to build blueman, but bluez4 and rebuild all your applications with it and possibly port some of them back to 4 that dropped support for it. ;(
Happily, I see there is development again on porting blueman to bluez5, so when/if that happens hopefully it will be shipped again.
kevin
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Konstantin Svist