Bug 551004 - Blueman-applet disappears from notification area after 30 seconds
Summary: Blueman-applet disappears from notification area after 30 seconds
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: blueman
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Juan Manuel Rodriguez
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-28 13:48 UTC by Jonathan Pritchard
Modified: 2010-12-04 01:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-04 01:08:51 UTC
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Description Jonathan Pritchard 2009-12-28 13:48:06 UTC
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

Comment 1 Jonathan Pritchard 2009-12-31 00:10:03 UTC
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."

Comment 2 Jonathan Pritchard 2009-12-31 00:52:03 UTC
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).

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 02:22:04 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 01:08:51 UTC
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