[Solved] Bluetooth in gnome-shell not functioning

Lacsapix · 2014-08-12 18:02:44

Hello everyone and thank you for reading this topic,

I'm trying to get bluetooth working on my laptop, My setup is a acer aspire v3 laptop (containing BT-4)running archlinux wth gnome-shell

packages that matter (at least i think):

[pascal@Skynet:~]$ pacman -Q | grep blue
bluez 5.21-2
bluez-firmware 1.2-8
gnome-bluetooth 3.12.0-1

Result (this is everything no animations/eye-candy, its frozen in this state):

So I'm doing something wrong. I expect my phone to show up (named "tricorder" for alll the trekkies here )

My googling resulted in many people saying that gnome-bluetooth doesnt work with bluez5. But I havent seen a workaround.

Thanks again!

Last edited by Lacsapix (2014-08-12 18:51:44)

runical · 2014-08-12 18:38:07

Might be a stupid question, but have you activated the bluetooth systemd service? Without that, you won't be able to use bluetooth.

EDIT: See the wiki for more information.

Last edited by runical (2014-08-12 18:39:47)

Lacsapix · 2014-08-12 18:50:58

*sigh*
I'm ashamed of myself a simple:

 systemctl start bluetooth

Dit it.
Thank you!

runical · 2014-08-12 18:54:08

Don't forget to enable the service as well if you don't want to start the service every time.

ALso, it happens to everyone.

Last edited by runical (2014-08-12 18:54:48)

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