Issues with bluetooth on KDE Plasma

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Please consider sparing some love for KDE Plasma. :sob:

3rd version of Fedora released with this problem now.

A while ago I made this issue.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-is-extremely-bugged-out-in-f42-kde-also-in-f41-kde

After that a number of issues followed:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-audio-immediately-disconnects

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-speaker-connected-over-a2dp-but-no-audio-output-from-kernel-6-15-5-onwards

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/my-bluetooth-headset-keeps-disconnecting-as-soon-as-i-start-playing-sound

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-service-needs-to-be-restarted-to-work

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-a2dp-regression-in-bluez-5-83-5-84-connection-fails-on-startup-tp-link-ub500-plus

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-mostly-broken-after-installing-kde-plasma

**I recently have tested the live ISOs of the Fedora 43 GNOME, Fedora 43 KDE and Fedora 43 Cinnamon in a live environment.

I CAN CONFIRM I WAS ABLE TO REPRODUCE THE ISSUE ONLY IN FEDORA KDE MULTIPLE TIMES.**

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P.S. I am currently using Debian 13 on the computer that I care.

Why I canā€™t opt for another distro:

The reason Iā€™m so obsessed with fixing this bug, is because, I am obsessed with fedora. Why? It fits all of my needs.

  1. Does not break every now and then,
  2. Does not break if I delay updates for many days
  3. Gives a vanilla DE experience
  4. Is the most recognized distro after ubuntu (therefore getting the perk of more software)
  5. Is relatively up-to-date, unlike Debian.

Why I canā€™t opt for another DE:

GNOME is a literal ā€œjokeā€ for ā€œmeā€.
I donā€™t care about theming. But I care about functionality. Also, Iā€™ve had fewer crashes with GTK apps in KDE than in GNOME.

The only other viable option is Cinnamon, which has served me well before when I was using Mint. But it does not support Wayland (yet). Iā€™ve noticed the animations are janky on X11. On my hardware, I can see ā€œnoticeableā€ performance improvements under Wayland, irrespective of the DE. I love KDE as much as I love fedora.

Hence, please consider reviewing this.

Thanks.

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You might try submitting it as a Prioritized Bug to try to get a little extra attention drawn to the issue.

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None of the discussion threads linked above show any bug reported to Fedora or upstream. Things canā€™t get fixed if you guys donā€™t file bugs, developers donā€™t look around the forum and file the bugs themselves.

Prioritizing a bug would be the second step, first file a bug.

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I did file a bug, but I canā€™t find the report anymore. When I login to my RedHat account, then click on ā€œMy Bugsā€, nothing shows up. But someone else did file a similar bug, and that too a year ago:

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UPDATE: I am able to reproduce the issue on the latest endeavourOS Ganymede ISO.

Probably a KDE issue? :sob:
When I reported my first issue (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bluetooth-is-extremely-bugged-out-in-f42-kde-also-in-f41-kde), I tested it on openSUSE Tumbleweed latest snapshot of that time & also endeavour. Bluetooth worked fine in both.

I will also try this out on the latest openSUSE Tumbleweed ISO (current) AGAIN and post the result.

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UPDATE 2: I am UNABLE to reproduce the issue on openSUSE Tumbleweed (05 Dec ISO) and also on CachyOS (arch-based system).
As a reminder, I was able to reproduce the issue on endeavourOS which is basically vanilla arch.

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UPDATE 3: I found something as a workaround, since no idea how many years this bug will take to get fixed

  1. Create a script:
nano ~/.local/bin/restart-bluetooth.sh

Content:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 5  # Wait for system to settle
systemctl restart bluetooth
  1. Make it executable:
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/restart-bluetooth.sh
  1. Create a polkit rule to allow passwordless restart:
 nano /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-restart-bluetooth.rules

Content:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
  if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units" &&
      action.lookup("unit") == "bluetooth.service") {
    return polkit.Result.YES;
  }
});
  1. Add to KDE Autostart:
  • Open System Settings ā†’ System ā†’ Autostart
  • Click Add New ā†’ Login Script
  • Choose restart-bluetooth.sh located at ~/.local/bin/
  • Apply
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