Comments on: Blueman - Bluetooth manager for Ubuntu

By: Rykel

Rykel — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:11:59 +0000

This happens to my Bluetooth after a Suspend too. Would be interested to know the answer.

By: uday desai

uday desai — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:59:53 +0000

i could not enable bluetooth on ubuntu 10.04 so suggest me how to enable it

By: Clay Berlo

Clay Berlo — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:46:32 +0000

Okay, a couple of reboots later and I have a configuration that works (not perfectly, but passable) on my Acer TM8172T.

1. Install Blueman.
2. Check Startup Applications to make sure the Blueman Applet isn’t starting by default.
3. After login, press the Fn-F3 hotkey to toggle wireless/bluetooth.
4. Wait for the greyed-out Bluetooth symbol to appear in the tray.
5. Start the Blueman Manager from System->Preferences->Bluetooth Manager.
6. When prompted, start Bluetooth services.

From there, I connected my Bluetooth mouse and it works consistently. No need to reconnect it each time I login. Note: Bluetooth defaults to off on this system, so toggling always needs to be done.

By: Clay Berlo

Clay Berlo — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:23:48 +0000

Just wanted to drop a quick note about my experience with Blueman and Ubuntu 10.10. Blueman is in the repository, so it’s a simple “apt-get install blueman”. On my Acer Travelmate 8172T it is the simplest way to get my Bluetooth working. Without it, I can toggle Bluetooth on and off with the internal hotkey, but the Bluetooth service never starts. Haven’t rebooted to play around with it yet, but here’s hoping everything still works!

By: saipreethy

saipreethy — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:51:05 +0000

Connection to BlueZ failed
Bluez daemon is not running, blueman-manager cannot continue.
how to fix this…?

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:48:09 +0000

i am using ubuntu 10.04LTS. can any one tell me that is bluetoothmenu package available with dialup service……… for internet acess

By: rulka

rulka — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:00:09 +0000

Great! works perfectly on kubuntu 8.10!…just finishing the configuration about browse a device!
thnx a lot!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:30:05 +0000

#To Ubuntu9.04 and lower
#To automatically add the OpenPGP key, do:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 951DC1E2

By: shshank

shshank — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:19:20 +0000

Thanks for this post.Blueman is really very good,and better than other tools

By: Uwe Koch

Uwe Koch — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:50:04 +0000

Strange behaviour on Jaunty, the same problem appeared on my 32 bit distro too. I have to reinstall (without uninstalling) the bluez file from within synaptic and that way the bluez daemon runs, otherways it strikes.

By: Uwe Koch

Uwe Koch — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:56:02 +0000

Oops, I meant amd64 instead of x86!

By: Uwe Koch

Uwe Koch — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:42:25 +0000

I installed both on a i386 and a x86 system (jaunty). First run without any faults, the second one gave me the following error:

uwe@koch-vdm01:~$ blueman-manager
Loading configuration plugins
_________
on_bluez_name_owner_changed (/usr/bin/blueman-manager:99)
org.bluez owner changed to
uwe@koch-vdm01:~$

Any idea what went wrong?

By: ramfree17

ramfree17 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:48:18 +0000

Can you post your key id? The URL to the ubuntu keyserver is not returning anything. Thanks.

By: Adrian Grebin

Adrian Grebin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:57:16 +0000

Got blueman installed, but every menu item (by rightclicking on the icon) are greyed out, i can send files to my phone that i’ve got paired before with the default ubuntu bluetooth manager, but cant do anything else not even pair a new device.

By: Vladimir Dobriakov

Vladimir Dobriakov — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:49:27 +0000

For me `sudo apt-get install blueman` was not enough for broadband (UMTS) internet access. With my Nokia N95 on 9.04 Jaunty I got ‘CDMA or GSM not supported’. Installing/updating more packages as described here https://bugs.launchpad.net/blueman/+bug/361947/comments/11 helped!

By: Genie

Genie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:48:36 +0000

This is great! I really hope it will become the default bt-manager in Ubuntu 9.10.

By: Brad Schauf

Brad Schauf — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:16:32 +0000

Got Blueman installed, but fails pairing with Microsoft Presenter Mouse 8000 because that mouse does not require a passcode and the “OK” button on the pairing dialog wont lite up until you type something in. Can Blueman be configured to connect to a device without a passcode?

By: Jarno

Jarno — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:14:16 +0000

I’ve got the same issue as Nick. My headset is connected but the sound is still going through my speakers. Does anyone have a suggestion?

By: Robi

Robi — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:31:34 +0000

I resolve my problem. Right click on applet, click to Local services, go to Trnasfer tab and enable File Sharing (FTP), and Allow device to write/read

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:58:35 +0000

Very useful…thanks.

However, I’m now able to pair my Parrot Boombox speaker, but can’t figure out how to send sound through it, it’s still coming out of the laptop speaker.

Any ideas?