Fedora 37: Cannot choose bluetooth device from header

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Hello,

I cannot choose a bluetooth device to connect to from the menu in the top right corner.
Is there any setting to en-/disable this? Any idea why it is not working?
It is working nicely for W-LAN and VPN setting.

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Thanks in advance
Paul

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what are the outputs of

sudo systemctl status bluetooth
sudo rfkill
bluetoothctl show

?

Further troubleshooting … Troubleshooting Bluetooth problems :: Fedora Docs

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sudo systemctl status bluetooth

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sudo rfkill
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bluetoothctl show

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maybe one more thing. bluetooth itself works very good. it is just the menu that is not working for me. so it is a convenience issue because if have to open the settings windows every time i want to connect a bluetooth device

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Please post text output in a terminal as text (using the </> button so it is searchable.

You didn’t show the output of systemctl --global --user is-enabled obex as suggested in the Troubleshooting document.

Are you using Fedora Workstation 37 with standard Gnome configuration? Does the system have more than one user? Here, F39 as user 1000 with a user 1001 session also running, the Bluetooth device can be controlled by the active user from the popup panel.

~% ps al | head -1 && ps axl | grep bluetooth | grep -v grep
F   UID     PID    PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
4     0     930       1  20   0   8964  5248 -      Ss   ?          0:00 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd
0  1001  343356  341534  20   0  48476  7936 -      Ss   ?          0:00 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd
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F37 is now passed its end of life. You should consider upgrading to f38 or better yet f39.
It maybe that this problem is fixed in f39.

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You are right, that fixed it :slight_smile: