blueman
Blueman is a GTK+ Bluetooth Manager (by blueman-project)
bluez
Fork of BlueZ, the Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux (by RadiusNetworks)
| blueman | bluez | |
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| 16 | 8 | |
| 1,158 | 48 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 8.3 | 10.0 | |
| 2 days ago | almost 9 years ago | |
| Python | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
blueman
Posts with mentions or reviews of blueman.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-16.
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XFCE 4.20 Aiming for Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility
I'm wondering if that would that be an issue with blueman tools and not XFCE, per se?
https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman
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Autostart directories in Gnome - Fedora Workstation
This post was created after I got annoyed with Gnome here.
- Thank you senpai!
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I know nothing about Linux, but it's all I have to work with
You can use command sudo apt install bluez to install bluez, a Bluetooth Linux stack, and then install Blueman, a GUI Bluetooth manager
- Better way to switch Bluetooth devices on and off?
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Everytime I try to connect my headphones with Bluetooth Manager, it disconnects and connects to an iPhone?
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.
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Blueman unable to connect to Sony
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
- Bluetooth Devices Not Detected
- in mint 20.3 i could play audio through my computer by connecting to it with bluetooth from another device, how can i re-create this functionality in mint 21?
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Is there an easier way of connecting Bluetooth headphones?
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.
bluez
Posts with mentions or reviews of bluez.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.
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I'm trying to learn how to use a protocol stack like BlueZ, but I have no idea where to look to find the instructions for how to actually use the thing, what am I missing?
Upon going on the website BlueZ there is a lot of details about the versions, downloading the thing, releases, features, and a FAQ page with very little info.
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How do I use Server as Speakers?
And bluez for the Bluetooth part
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I know nothing about Linux, but it's all I have to work with
You can use command sudo apt install bluez to install bluez, a Bluetooth Linux stack, and then install Blueman, a GUI Bluetooth manager
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Stop blueman from stealing bluetooth devices when away from keyboard?
Option 3: raise a PR on the bluez people at http://www.bluez.org/ to include such a timeout into the driver (or contribute code to do it)
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What Earbuds Are Best For Me?
I would strongly appreciate a model with Linux user testimony to it playing nice with BlueZ/Pipewire - although it feels as if more gadgets have worked OOTB in the past half-decade, I'm loathe to dump $100+ on hardware which might not even connect.
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Paired the Deck to Win10 via Bluetooth to see what happens... welp, its a Bluetooth Speaker!
Well it's undoubtedly using http://www.bluez.org/ but this is just how all linux systems work (because they pretty much all use bluez), idk what this guy is talking about a driver for
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Problems installing PyBluez on Linux!
the command you used is for a source-based install, not a pip-based install. did you also try installing via pip? python -m pip install pybluez also see http://www.bluez.org/
- Pydbus + Bluez, discover all nearby devices and retrieve their Class of Device and Icon
What are some alternatives?
When comparing blueman and bluez you can also consider the following projects:
pipewire-debian - Upstream Version of pipewire, wireplumber, roc-toolkit & blueman for debian/ubuntu
NymphCast - Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.
anal-encryption-2.0
UxPlay - AirPlay Unix mirroring server
luet - :package: :whale: 0-dependency Container-based Package Manager using SAT solver and QLearning
dotfiles
GCinemaCraftDownloader
LibreOffice - Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead
bluetooth-autoconnect - A linux command line tool to automatically connect to all paired and trusted bluetooth devices.
ONLYOFFICE - ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.
matrix-effect - Sample text!
mpd - Music Player Daemon