Bluetooth Issue

[deleted] Turn that setting off.

Yes. I'd seen that before, but forgotten about it. I just turned it OFF, and will see what effect that has.

[deleted] Turn that setting off.

It turns out that the setting you mentioned is rather puzzling. I turned it OFF, and it immediately turned OFF Bluetooth. I couldn't get it working again until I turned the setting back on, shutdown, and restarted. Apparently if you don't give it the ability to turn off the Bluetooth based on some usage timeout or other signal, it takes that to mean that you want it to be turned off unconditionally.

[deleted] Let's see if this works

If I continue to have trouble with it, I'll give that a try. For now, it's been working well for me all day so far. I hope it continues that way ... I'm pretty tired of restarting the laptop.

[deleted] Let's see if this works

That didn't take long. The keyboard quit soon after I answered you. I strongly suspect that it's not a timeout issue, though, because at least twice it's happened while I was in the middle of typing a reply to someone in Parler. The keyboard was definitely not idle.

WetGeek I'm not sure I actually invoked this.

Well, now I'm sure I got the job done. This morning the keyboard was dead again, so I repeated that command, and this time the prompt returned immediately. Now I can evaluate whether it's had any effect. The keyboard is once again working, and I can't wait to find out how long it lasts this time.

That didn't last long. Two hours later the keyboard quit again while I was typing something, so I think our thinking long the lines of a timeout may be faulty. I've removed all the stuff I added to /etc, and rebooted. I wanted to make sure I didn't forget, and leave something there.

I'm not sure what line of enquiry to take next, but I'll continue to work on it. Fortunately, Solus restarts so quickly that most of the time the need to do that isn't a huge annoyance ... just a frequent one for me.

SOLUSfiddler how is your BT keyboard powered

It has an internal lithium-ion battery that's fully charged. It has a multicolor LED that indicates when it's becoming discharged by flashing and turns red when the battery is depleted.

I've undone everything that I've done so far during this adventure, including un-pairing the keyboard and starting over from the beginning. The keyboard battery is supposedly good for 60+ hours on a charge, and it has a standby mode that engages after 10 minutes of non-use. One exits standby mode by pressing any key and waiting 3 seconds. I've never seen the LED flashing, so I'm not sure it's ever been run down.

Online research into troubleshooting this model keyboard has me wondering whether the original pairing occurred normally, which is why I've redone that from the beginning. All's working well at the moment, but it will take a couple days of correct operation before I'm ready to believe that it's really fixed.