Description of problem: The Blueman applet in the notification area randomly disappears, it has to be restarted with the workaround of going to System -> Preferences -> Bluetooth and switching it on, this makes the Blueman applet pop up. I experienced this to a lesser degree in Fedora 11 as well, and read that this was fixed in the latest version which it isn't. I used to use a symlink to bluman-applet and run it when it disappeared, this workaround has stopped working for me. Version: blueman-1.21-2.fc12.i686 Latest updates as of 28/12/09
It appears that blueman-applet is still running, so that is why running the shortcut to bluman-applet doesn't do anything. The applet in the notification area is however completely missing making it unusable. If you try to launch Blueman from the menu it complains about: "Connection to BlueZ failed Bluez daemon is not running, blueman-manager cannot continue."
This seem to have something to do with the changes made in Fedora 12 for power saving to, when inactive shutdown the bluetooth system. So when I turn bluetooth off in the blueman-applet, exactly 30 seconds later it disappears from the notification area -- there is no need for that, and this is the bug. Turning the bluetooth off when not in use is a good idea it just shouldn't remove the applet from the notification area (it appears to be running in the background still according to system monitor).
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