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Re: blueman & bluetooth

 

Ooooh,

that does not seem normal behaviour!

@ Julien: Any thoughts?

Regards,

Phill.

On 7 October 2012 08:17, UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> lubuntu-desktop
>
> 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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