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Re: blueman & bluetooth

 

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2012/10/7 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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