f12 gnome turn off bluetooth command

Natxo Asenjo natxo.asenjo at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 17:40:55 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> with F12 the bluetooth applet has a new option: turn (on|off), which
> is a great thing to have. Considering that many laptop users have a
> bluetooth device, is there a gconf option or something to have it
> start turned off to save battery? We can alwasy turn it manually on if
> we need it.
>
> I have been searching with the gconf-editor but couldn't find
> anything. Any hints appreciated.

to answer my own question, here is what I have done:

in /etc/rc.local I have included this line:

/sbin/rfkill block bluetooth

so the bluetooth sender is not active. I can turn it on from the
bluetooth applet if I need it as a normal user.

-- 
natxo


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