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Re: blueman & bluetooth

 

Hiyas...

Desktop, or the lubuntu-meta package? The removal of the meta package is
expected behaviour.

Regards,

Phill.

On 7 October 2012 00:05, UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok, ok, i know, you don't like here so much bluetooth, but me and i
> think a lot of other simple users need it on a daily base. Anyway . .
> . Playing around with 12.10 i386 on a netbook i realize that lubunto
> points to blueman (instead of gnome bluetooth - when i tried to delete
> it in synaptic i saw lubuntu desktop would have to go with, which
> indicates there is a dependency). Blueman shows up correctly as
> bluetooth manager in System Settings. So far, so good.
>
> BUT: if there is blueman it should cooperate with pcmanfm - and in the
> version which comes automatically by installation it does not. When i
> try to read files on a bluetooth device, blueman laments about no
> thunar there ;) I know it's not absolutely trivial but really easy to
> adapt blueman to pcmanfm. Here comes the instruction how it works:
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=54137&p=410284#p312665
> (go to the linked discussion in the blueman forum as well - musial
> gave save one point a perfect instruction). Substitute pcmanfm to
> dolphin. May be that helper files could be put on to the installation
> cd?
>
> A final note: I still did not try out practically how blueman does. In
> my experience it was slow, at least slower than gnome-bluetooth. On
> intel based computers that diefference wasn' t really a big affair, on
> the mac ppc blueman was dead slow and practically unuseable.
>
> Uli
>
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