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tony5429

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[SOLVED] How to Get Bluetooth System Tray Icon in KDE

I have the necessary Bluetooth packages installed and am running KDE, but do not see the Bluetooth icon in the system tray. The wiki says "If there is no Bluetooth icon visible in Dolphin and in the system tray, add it manually." However I do not know how to "add it manually." When I access my System Tray Settings, I do not see any option for Bluetooth. Any ideas?

Last edited by tony5429 (2015-08-21 00:58:49)

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mauritiusdadd

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Registered: 2013-10-27

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Get Bluetooth System Tray Icon in KDE

If I remember correctly, the Bluetooth configuration can be accessed in System settings > Network > Bluetooth. Also is the Bluetooth adapter enabled? What is the output of the following command?

$ rfkill list all

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tony5429

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Get Bluetooth System Tray Icon in KDE

In System settings > Network, I only have "Network  Settings", "SSL Preferences", and "Sharing". Is this helpful?

[karam@yuri ~]$ rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
[karam@yuri ~]$ pacman -Q bluedevil bluez
bluedevil 1:5.3.2-1
bluez 5.33-1
[karam@yuri ~]$ lsmod | grep btusb
btusb                  45056  0
btbcm                  16384  1 btusb
btintel                16384  1 btusb
bluetooth             458752  23 bnep,btbcm,btusb,btintel
usbcore               200704  8 uas,btusb,uvcvideo,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,xhci_hcd,xhci_pci
[karam@yuri ~]$

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arojas

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Get Bluetooth System Tray Icon in KDE

Are you actually running the Bluetooth application?

mauritiusdadd

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Registered: 2013-10-27

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Get Bluetooth System Tray Icon in KDE

In System settings > Network, I only have "Network  Settings", "SSL Preferences", and "Sharing". Is this helpful?

That's wierd, I just installed KDE with plasma 5 and bluedevil, and the Bluetooth kcm module is exactly there. Are using plasma 5? From your screenshot it seems you are still using kde4 if so, then you should install bluedevil4.

If instead you are actually using plasma 5, what happens if you run systemsettings from the console?

systemsettings5

Can you also post the output of

kcmshell5 --list | grep blue

PS: Also, note that in plasma 5 the Bluetooth icon can be enabled in System Tray Settings > General > Extra Items (see this screenshot http://i.imgur.com/v11kasM.png).

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ali-libre

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Get Bluetooth System Tray Icon in KDE

And so you can install bt requierment.... if you don't install theme..

tony5429

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Get Bluetooth System Tray Icon in KDE

All: thanks for the comments. I had been using bluedevil but am still on KDE4. Switching to bluedevil4 fixed it.

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