Bluetooth quick connect

This extension allows paired Bluetooth devices to be connected and disconnected via the GNOME system menu, without need to enter the Settings app every time.

Requirements

• bluez (on ubuntu: sudo apt install bluez)

Installation from extensions.gnome.org

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1401/bluetooth-quick-connect/

Installation from source code

git clone https://github.com/bjarosze/gnome-bluetooth-quick-connect
cd gnome-bluetooth-quick-connect
make
rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
cp -r * ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]

Troubleshooting

Connecting and disconnecting does not work

This extensions calls bluetoothctl under the hood. If something does not work you can try to execute bluetoothctl command in terminal and see what is wrong.

Paired devices

bluetoothctl -- paired-devices

Connecting

bluetoothctl -- connect <mac address>

Disconnecting

bluetoothctl -- disconnect <mac address>

Reconnecting

bluetoothctl -- disconnect <mac> && bluetoothctl -- connect <mac>

Reconnecting does not work

Not sure why, but sometimes bluetoothctl does not want to connect device after it was disconnected. Reinstalling bluez and rebooting system helped on my ubuntu.

$ sudo apt purge bluez gnome-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
$ sudo apt install bluez gnome-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-bluetooth