KDE plasma disable bluetooth after login

clauded

I've been banging my head on this: when I boot my laptop, my external bluetooth keyboard/mouse is working fine on the login screen. After entering my credential, bluetooth is disabled. Same behaviour after logout/login.
How do I enable bluetooth automatically after login in KDE??

Girtablulu

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434666 sounds like this?

clauded

Exactly! I removed bluedevil and bluetooth devices were alive after login. However no more configuration options for bluetooth devices in system configuration 🙁

Girtablulu

clauded we are stateless so

sudo cp /usr/share/defaults/bluetooth/main.conf /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

and edit the flag

clauded

The flag?

Girtablulu

clauded the autoenable inside the bug report, you may have to activate it manually after login, as long as there isnt a patch for it I cant backport anything to fix it

clauded

It's a catch 22: setting autoenable to false disable the bluetooth devices in SDDM (but fixes the KDE bug).

Girtablulu

clauded well what's the better catch then 🙂

clauded

If only I could type a reply with my BT keyboard... 😆

Girtablulu

clauded you can't activate after loging?

clauded

This is strange: I deleted /etc/bluetooth/main.conf and now BT works in SDDM and is enabled after login.

WetGeek

clauded I deleted /etc/bluetooth/main.conf and now BT works in SDDM and is enabled after login.

I found this curious ... I use BT earbuds with my Plasma laptop, and they've never failed to connect automatically.

Girtablulu

clauded hum? okay that's a bit weird but glad it's solved

@WetGeek Sddm is the plasma display manager, similar to lightdm on Budgie

clauded

WetGeek earbuds are not really a problem with SDDM... 🙂

WetGeek

clauded earbuds are not really a problem with SDDM...

I have no idea what SDDM is, but I'm pretty sure I'm glad that earbuds aren't an issue with it. Thanks!

BruceElephant

Ha! I'm experiencing this these days. After Login, Bluetooth is disabled. : (

BruceElephant

Ah, nevermind! I fixed it by deleting the bluedevilglobalrc file. : )

HondaRulez

BruceElephant worked for me 😃

The problem probable the "_powered=false" suffix at the MAC addr.

BruceElephant

@HondaRulez I'm glad it did! It's good to know that there might be multiple solutions for the problem. : )