You are not logged in.

#1 2016-06-28 16:11:58

marmistrz
Member
Registered: 2016-01-05
Posts: 110

Bluetooth and Cinnamon

The Cinnamon Desktop Environment usually provides an applet and an entry in Control Center to manage bluetooth.

But cinnamon-bluetooth is missing from the repos, so is the entry in System Settings.

What should I do?

Offline

#2 2016-06-28 23:16:37

olliemath
Member
From: Lancaster, UK
Registered: 2014-12-16
Posts: 13

Re: Bluetooth and Cinnamon

The wiki suggests installing blueberry - have you tried this?

Offline

#3 2016-06-29 10:17:38

marmistrz
Member
Registered: 2016-01-05
Posts: 110

Re: Bluetooth and Cinnamon

Yep, this does work but doesn't integrate so well with Cinnamon.

Offline

#4 2016-06-29 11:52:42

olliemath
Member
From: Lancaster, UK
Registered: 2014-12-16
Posts: 13

Re: Bluetooth and Cinnamon

I had a look at building the cinnamon-bluetooth release on GitHub - unfortunately the instructions in the INSTALL file do not work (which I guess is why cinnamon-bluetooth-git in the AUR is out of date / dead). I've logged a bug asking for correct build instructions - that would allow you to create an AUR package tracking the official releases.

Offline

#5 2016-06-29 16:51:26

Chazza
Wiki Maintainer
Registered: 2013-06-02
Posts: 506

Re: Bluetooth and Cinnamon

I'm not going to build it but with regards to the configure script, you just need to run autoreconf -fi which will automatically generate configure. Note that the cinnamon-bluetooth package provides a file called configure.ac - this is used by autoconf to generate configure. autoreconf is a helper which calls the autotools in the right order.

Last edited by Chazza (2016-06-29 17:03:56)

Offline

#6 2016-07-01 02:07:09

olliemath
Member
From: Lancaster, UK
Registered: 2014-12-16
Posts: 13

Re: Bluetooth and Cinnamon

Thanks Chazza - new skill learnt - probably should have googled what that configure.ac file did!

@marmistrz unfortunately it still looks like you won't see a build of cinnamon-bluetooth any time soon, unless you can downgrade gnome-bluetooth:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-b … h/issues/9
that's a rabbit hole I don't fancy going down.

Last edited by olliemath (2016-07-01 02:13:34)

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB