Bluetooth - no systray icon? Another systray problem or???

[SteveRiley]

Weird. Glad your Bluetooth is working. Wish I could figure out why it isn't here...

On your machine, what's the output of

dpkg -l | grep -i blu

[claydoh]

No, there is no bluetooth command, but if you type blue (not bluetooth as I had incorrectly mentioned) in krunner or kmenu, you do get Bluedevil as an option. Sorry 'bout that!

This gets you the tray icon, from where you can configure and control bluetooth. It just doesn't start automatically. I've added it as an autostart item an system settings, which should work.

[SteveRiley]

No, there is no bluetooth command, but if you type blue (not bluetooth as I had incorrectly mentioned) in krunner or kmenu, you do get Bluedevil as an option. Sorry 'bout that!

This gets you the tray icon, from where you can configure and control bluetooth. It just doesn't start automatically. I've added it as an autostart item an system settings, which should work.

Works!

steve@x250:~$ [B]ps -ef | grep blue[/B]
root       684     1  0 May25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd -n
steve    14768     1  1 16:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/bluedevil-monolithic  [I][COLOR="#FF0000"]<-- this is what got started[/COLOR][/I]

And the icon is in my system tray.

[oshunluvr]

Here:

ii  bluedevil                                     2.0~rc1really1.3.2-0ubuntu1                amd64        KDE Bluetooth stack
ii  bluemon                                       1.4-6ubuntu1                               amd64        Activate or deactivate programs based on Bluetooth link quality
ii  bluetooth                                     4.101-0ubuntu25                            all          Bluetooth support
ii  bluewho                                       0.1-1                                      all          notifies new discovered bluetooth devices
ii  bluez                                         4.101-0ubuntu25                            amd64        Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii  bluez-alsa:amd64                              4.101-0ubuntu25                            amd64        Bluetooth ALSA support
ii  bluez-audio                                   4.101-0ubuntu25                            all          Transitional package
ii  bluez-compat                                  4.101-0ubuntu25                            amd64        BlueZ 3.x compatibility binaries
ii  bluez-cups                                    4.101-0ubuntu25                            amd64        Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS
ii  bluez-gstreamer                               4.101-0ubuntu25                            amd64        Bluetooth GStreamer support
ii  bluez-tools                                   0.1.38+git662e-3                           amd64        Set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for linux
ii  bluez-utils                                   4.101-0ubuntu25                            all          Transitional package
rc  gnome-bluetooth                               3.8.2.1-0ubuntu11                          amd64        GNOME Bluetooth tools
rc  indicator-bluetooth                           0.0.6+14.10.20141006-0ubuntu1              amd64        System bluetooth indicator.
ii  libbluedevil1:amd64                           2.0~rc1really1.9.4-0ubuntu1                amd64        Qt wrapper for bluez
ii  libbluetooth3:amd64                           4.101-0ubuntu25                            amd64        Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii  libbluray-bdj                                 1:0.7.0-1                                  all          Blu-ray Disc Java support library (BD-J library)
ii  libbluray-bin                                 1:0.7.0-1                                  amd64        Blu-ray disc playback support library (tools)
ii  libbluray-dev:amd64                           1:0.7.0-1                                  amd64        Blu-ray disc playback support library (development files)
ii  libbluray-doc                                 1:0.7.0-1                                  all          Blu-ray disc playback support library (documentation)
ii  libbluray1:amd64                              1:0.7.0-1                                  amd64        Blu-ray disc playback support library (shared library)
rc  libgnome-bluetooth11                          3.8.2.1-0ubuntu11                          amd64        GNOME Bluetooth tools - support library
ii  liblua5.2-0:amd64                             5.2.3-1.1                                  amd64        Shared library for the Lua interpreter version 5.2
ii  libqt5bluetooth5:amd64                        5.4.1-1ubuntu1                             amd64        Qt Connectivity Bluetooth module
ii  libqt5bluetooth5-bin:amd64                    5.4.1-1ubuntu1                             amd64        Qt Connectivity Bluetooth module helper binaries
ii  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth                   1:6.0-0ubuntu6                             amd64        Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  python-bluez                                  0.20-1                                     amd64        Python wrappers around BlueZ for rapid bluetooth development

Not here...

stuart@office:/mnt/samsung/@Kubuntu_14_04/var/log$ blue
blue: command not found

What package installs the "blue" command?

stuart@office:/mnt/samsung/@Kubuntu_14_04/var/log$ ps -ef |grep blue
root       994     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd -n
stuart    4731     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/bluedevil-helper
stuart    4738     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/bluedevil-monolithic
stuart   10264  2315  0 07:26 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto blue
stuart   10271  2315  0 07:27 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto blue
stuart@office:/mnt/samsung/@Kubuntu_14_04/var/log$

[oshunluvr]

So I rebooted this morning to test, and again - no bluetooth. I started "bluetooth" using sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start which launched the daemon, but no tray icon. Then I did kcmshell4 bluedevildevices and got the bluedevil window with the "Bluetooth is not completely enabled" message and the "Fix It" button. I don't know what that button does, but clicking it puts the bluedevil icon in the systray.

Still no "blue" command on my system.

[SteveRiley]

If you open KRunner and type just "blue", do you eventually see "Bluetooth" appear in the list? That's what worked for me. It's a launcher in Applications -> Internet. It points to /usr/bin/bluedevil-monolithic.

[oshunluvr]

No, nothing happened. I also tried it in a terminal which results in the above "not found" message. I did just find "Bluetooth" in my App>Internet menu and it wasn't there before. Must have inserted when I re-installed bluedevil. I'm working at the moment, so I'll reboot later and try using the menu item and report the results.

I still don't get why bluetooth isn't starting at boot time - it appears all the scripts are in place and correct - but I can deal with it as is for now. I might just write a work-around script to launch at start.

I'm sure once everything is ported to kcmshell5 most of these little niggling problems will go away.

[SteveRiley]

No, nothing happened. I also tried it in a terminal which results in the above "not found" message.

I'd expect a command line attempt to result in the behavior you observed. But typing into KRunner triggers a Baloo search; you should have seen anything on your system that Baloo would have indexed containing "blue" in a filename or contents.

I did just find "Bluetooth" in my App>Internet menu and it wasn't there before. Must have inserted when I re-installed bluedevil.

Yes:

steve@x250:~$ [B]dpkg -S bluedevil-monolithic[/B]
bluedevil: /usr/share/applications/kde4/bluedevil-monolithic.desktop
bluedevil: /usr/bin/bluedevil-monolithic

I still don't get why bluetooth isn't starting at boot time - it appears all the scripts are in place and correct - but I can deal with it as is for now. I might just write a work-around script to launch at start.

What scripts are you examining? And the workaround is much easier: just create an autstart entry for /usr/bin/bluedevil-monolithic:

I'm sure once everything is ported to kcmshell5 most of these little niggling problems will go away.

There already is a Plasma 5 Bluetooth applet; it was included with version 5.3. But for some reason, it isn't packaged in Kubuntu backports -- probably because we don't have BluezQt yet.

[oshunluvr]

I was referring to the init scripts being in place.

Anyway, @here just starting BlueDevil from the Kmenu or Krunner doesn't work so I suspect putting it in autostart won't either. However, doing "kcmshell4 bluedevildevices" brings up the device window. Once I click on "Fix It" because apparently something isn't set up correctly. the bluetooth icon appears in the panel.

[SteveRiley]

What happens if you reboot and then run /usr/bin/bluedevil-monolithic from a console window? I'm wondering what, if any, useful errors might appear.

[oshunluvr]

After a reboot, the only errors were inconsequential and the bluetooth icon appears.

stuart@office:~$ /usr/bin/bluedevil-monolithic
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.

[SteveRiley]

Then putting that exact command (Add program button) in an autostart should work for you now, I suspect.

[oshunluvr]

Indeed it does.

Now if I can just get Synergy and HP-Systray to "find" the systray at startup, i'll be a happy camper!