Aral Balkan

2 years ago

Aral Balkan
2 years ago

The Bluetooth Quick Connect extension (extensions.gnome.org/extension…) should be built-in functionality in GNOME.

It’s a hugely cumbersome process, otherwise, to connect to headphones that you’ve already paired (especially if you also use them with your phone, etc.)

#GNOME #usability #bluetooth

Screenshot of status menu showing Bluetooth section with previously-paired headphones and switches to connect/disconnect to them.

Bluetooth Quick Connect - GNOME Shell Extensions

^{extensions.gnome.org}

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Nick Matthews

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

I remember when Bluetooth was the promised land of easy connectivity. But repairing devices is a real PITA. I do like not yanking my laptop off the desk when I stand up though.

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malerbabomba

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

I had some trouble with newer Bluetooth Versions in MATE that recognize the headphones but without the integrated mic. Any issue like that with that software?

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Maybe you have an idea: I have Bowers & Wilkins Bluetooth headphones. Under Linux, no matter which distro, no matter which desktop, they can only be connected with Mono. Stereo simply does not work. Is there something I'm still missing? By the way, I'm not a Linux superuser, just a user.

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Terence Eden

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

oooh! That's really handy, thanks. Any other favourites you'd recommend?

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Aral Balkan

in reply to Terence Eden 2 years ago

The only other one I have installed at the moment is Night Theme Switcher (extensions.gnome.org/extension…) which automatically switches between light/dark based on time of day and you can also add a button to the status menu to manually override it.

Works like a charm and really shows off how well the colour scheme animations work in GNOME (also highlights which apps don’t support it yet).

Night Theme Switcher - GNOME Shell Extensions

^{extensions.gnome.org}

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Terence Eden

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

Thanks.
I can highly recommend Clipboard History and the Emoji Picker.

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Aral Balkan

in reply to Terence Eden 2 years ago

Neat, will check ’em out, thanks.

For the latter, have you tried Ctrl + . (period) for the native GNOME emoji picker? (Only works in native apps. Haven’t been able to get it to work in Firefox, for example.)