blueman VS LibreOffice

I'm wondering if that would that be an issue with blueman tools and not XFCE, per se?

https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman

This post was created after I got annoyed with Gnome here.

You can use command sudo apt install bluez to install bluez, a Bluetooth Linux stack, and then install Blueman, a GUI Bluetooth manager

This is a bug in blueman. I've had it happen on one of my laptops as well. According to the issue a fix has already been implemented and might be included in the next release, until then you could try blueman-git, or pair manually using bluetoothctl for the time being.

I had this same issue, but there's a fix for it in the blueman GitHub Issues page. Here's the thread: https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/issues/1887

Keep BT on and it should connect automatically, pairing is just for the first time you introduce a new device to your system. https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman is a pretty nice BT manager too, but probably wouldn't help a ton with your specific issue. It does provide some nice options and granularity.

First of all, if you need to write a lot of files in the doc format, there's a lovely office suite called libreoffice! Also, cups is a decent print utility for most printers, I'd check that out as well.

Try LibreOffice or OpenOffice .

Proof: https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/graphs/contributors

Both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice are descendents of the original OpenOffice (what you're probably thinking about.)

LibreOffice is under very active development and can be downloaded from https://www.libreoffice.org/

Apache OpenOffice is effectively abandonware at this point, see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Product_Release It's mostly been maintenance releases since 2013.

If you want LibreOffice with support (or just want to support development), you probably want Collabora.

If you need programs like office word excel and power point but offline try looking into Libre office