BluetoothMouseSupport

Revision 3 as of 2007-03-30 17:32:21

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Summary

An easy way to manage bluetooth pairings between essential devices like keyboards and mice.

Rationale

It should be straight forward and simple to setup a bluetooth keyboard or mice and not have to worry about it once you reboot. Having to type a command you found every time you restart your computer and hit the connect button on your keyboard is not convienent. There may be a way to make this happen, but it is not currently available through any menu I have found.

Use Cases

  • Brianna just purchased a new bluetooth keyboard and mouse. She knows she needs to pair it with her laptop to use it. Once she does that she doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

Discussion

["Warbo"]: For what it's worth I bought a USB bluetooth mouse recently, threw the Windows driver CD in the bin and plugged the dongle into Ubuntu (amd64 Edgy) and it worked straight away, all I tweaked was the acceleration a little. My girlfriend has a wireless keyboard+mouse combo and that worked straight away too, even the volume, home, calculator, etc. keys were all mapped to the right thing, so the support is at least partially there Smile :) These were all Logitech devices BTW.

["KevinThompson3"]: My problem is when I start up my system I need to type "sudo hidd --search" and press the connect button on my keyboard every time. Maybe I have done something wrong, but I can't find any way to see paired bluetooth devices in any of the menus. Maybe I am missing a package? I am not sure.


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