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<article id="index" lang="sl">
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<title>gnome-bluetooth Manual</title>
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<holder>Baptiste Mille-Mathias</holder>
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<author role="maintainer">
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<firstname>Baptiste</firstname>
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<surname>Mille-Mathias</surname>
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<orgname>GNOME Documentation Project</orgname>
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<email>baptiste.millemathias@gmail.com</email>
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<revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
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<date>March 2009</date>
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<para role="author">Baptiste Mille-Mathias
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<email>baptiste.millemathias@gmail.com</email>
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<revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
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<date>March 2009</date>
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<para role="author">Baptiste Mille-Mathias
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<email>baptiste.millemathias@gmail.com</email></para>
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<releaseinfo>This manual describes version 2.28 of gnome-bluetooth.</releaseinfo>
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<title>Feedback</title>
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To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the <application>gnome-bluetooth</application> application or this manual, follow the
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directions in the <ulink url="ghelp:user-guide?feedback-bugs" type="help">GNOME Feedback
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<abstract role="description">
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<para><application>gnome-bluetooth</application> is an application to manage Bluetooth devices in the GNOME desktop.</para>
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<primary>gnome-bluetooth</primary>
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<primary>Bluetooth</primary>
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<primary>Communication</primary>
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<sect1 id="gnome-bluetooth-intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<application>gnome-bluetooth</application> is an application that let you manage Bluetooth in the GNOME destkop.
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<application>gnome-bluetooth</application> permits to send files to your Bluetooth devices, or browse their content.
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Connect to your devices, like headset or audio gateway.
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You can add or delete Bluetooth devices, or manage their permissions.
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<sect1 id="gnome-bluetooth-applet">
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<title>Bluetooth Applet</title>
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The applet is the resident application you can find in the notification applet, that let you quickly access to
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the features, like sending files, or managing your devices.
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<figure id="gnome-bluetooth-applet-notification">
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<title>Bluetooth Applet icon in notification tray</title>
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<imagedata fileref="figures/bluetooth-applet.png" format="PNG"/>
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-applet-start">
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<title>Starting Bluetooth Applet</title>
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The <application>gnome-bluetooth</application> applet is started automatically when you log into your session, and you can find its icon in the
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notification zone. To launch manually the applet, open menu
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<guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenu>Accessories</guimenu><guimenu>Terminal</guimenu>
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and type <command>bluetooth-applet</command>.
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To prevent launching of the applet in your desktop, open menu
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<guimenu>System</guimenu><guimenu>Preferences</guimenu><guimenu>Session</guimenu>
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and disable <guilabel>Bluetooth Manager</guilabel>.
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooh-applet-power">
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<title>Turning off your Bluetooth adapter</title>
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Disabling your Bluetooth adapter will stop current and all future communications from and to your Bluetooth
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adapter. Disabling your Bluetooth adapter permits to save power of your laptop's battery, so it'll increase
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the autonomy, this is a good idea to disable your Bluetooth device when you don't use it.
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Click on the icon of the applet, and choose
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Turn Off Bluetooth</guimenu></menuchoice>, the notification icon will become grey.
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-applet-sending">
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<title>Sending files to Bluetooth device</title>
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Choose this menu to send a file to a device; a file chooser will appear to pick up the file to send and
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you'll have to select the device to send the file to.
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-applet-browsing">
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<title>Browsing Bluetooth device</title>
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<para>Choose this menu to browse the device filesystem directly in your file manager.</para>
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-applet-devices">
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<title>Last used devices</title>
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<para>This section displays your paired devices you can connect to.</para>
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<para>To connect to the device, click on its name, which will become bolded to inform you're connect to it.</para>
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-applet-setup">
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<title>Adding a new device</title>
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To add a new device (which consist of pairing your adapter with your device), click on the applet icon, and
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choose <guimenu>Setup new device...</guimenu>. An graphical assistant will help you in the process of setting
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Don't forget to set your remote device in discoverable mode before starting the process, else the wizard
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won't be able to find it.
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The wizard will present the discoverable devices it has found all around. You can filter out the list of
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devices by choosing the type of devices you're looking for.
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<figure id="gnome-bluetooth-wizard-img">
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<title>Device search in wizard</title>
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<imagedata fileref="figures/bluetooth-wizard.png" format="PNG"/>
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If your device has a harcoded passkey, choose <guibutton>Passkey Options...</guibutton>, in the new
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dialog, choose the passkey to use.
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Choose <guibutton>Forward</guibutton> for the pairing step; if you defined a fixed passkey in the previous
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step the pairing will occur automatically, else you'll be presented a passkey to enter in your device, type
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it on your device, once done the devices and your adapter will be paired.
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-applet-preferences">
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<title>Preferences</title>
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Click on the icon of the applet, and choose
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<guilabel>Preferences</guilabel>
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the preferences dialog will appear.
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For more information about preferences, see section <xref linkend="gnome-bluetooth-preferences"/>
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<sect1 id="gnome-bluetooth-preferences">
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<title>Preferences</title>
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The <application>gnome-bluetooth</application> preference dialog allows you to manage your various Bluetooth devices or change properties of your
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Bluetooth adapter(s).
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<figure id="gnome-bluetooth-prefs-img">
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<title>Preferences dialog</title>
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<imagedata fileref="figures/bluetooth-properties.png" format="PNG"/>
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-prefs-adapter-discover">
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<title>Discoverable</title>
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When your adapter is set to <guilabel>Discoverable</guilabel> any Bluetooth device around will be
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able to see it, and therefore will able to ask pairing.
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Bluetooth as other network types implies security risks, so setting your adapter undiscoverable
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to other devices is a good thing to do to limit the possibility of cracking.
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This is only useful to set your device discoverable if you plan to pair it with another device, once
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it is done, you can untick <guilabel>Discoverable</guilabel>.
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When your device is undiscoverable, communication with already paired Bluetooth devices is possible.
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-prefs-adapter-name">
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<title>Adapter friendly name</title>
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The friendly name is an alias for the address used to identified each Bluetooth device much easier
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By default the adapter friendly name is <envar>HOSTNAME</envar>-0 (where <envar>HOSTNAME</envar> is
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the name of your computer), to change it, edit the text entry and set the name you want. the change
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will be immediatly effective.
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-prefs-adapter-devices">
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<title>Known Devices</title>
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<guilabel>Known devices</guilabel> lists the Bluetooth devices you paired and let you manage them,
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like deleting them, connect to them or adding new one.
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Setup new device, as described in <xref linkend="gnome-bluetooth-applet-setup"/>
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Connect / Disconnect to a device.
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Device Deletion. Deletion will suppress pairing between the adapter and the device, and
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no communication will be allowed. You need to pair them together again if you want transfer
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-prefs-show-icon">
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<title>Show Bluetooth icon</title>
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You can show or hide Bluetooth icon in the panel. See <xref linkend="gnome-bluetooth-applet"/> for the
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If you disable the icon in the panel, only limited set of actions will remain available.
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<sect2 id="gnome-bluetooth-prefs-receive">
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<title>Receive Files</title>
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Click on the <guilabel>Receive Files</guilabel> button and the <guilabel>Personal File Sharing Preferences</guilabel> dialog will appear. You can configure Bluetooth file reception and sharing there.
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This feature is not provided by <application>gnome-bluetooth</application>.
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<application>gnome-user-share</application> must be installed to use this feature.
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Read more in the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:gnome-user-share">Personal File Sharing Manual</ulink>:
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<ulink type="help" url="ghelp:gnome-user-share#gnome-user-share-bluetooth-receiving">receiving</ulink> and <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:gnome-user-share#gnome-user-share-enabling-bluetooth">sharing</ulink>.
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<sect1 id="gnome-bluetooth-FAQ">
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<title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
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<para>I don't see how to receive files over Bluetooth on my computer in <application>gnome-bluetooth</application>, am I blind?</para>
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File reception is not implemented in <application>gnome-bluetooth</application>, but in <application>gnome-user-share</application>,
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so you have to install this application to be able to receive files over Bluetooth. Button explained in the <xref linkend="gnome-bluetooth-prefs-receive"/> is just a launcher of its configuration dialog.
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<para>I found a bug in <application>gnome-bluetooth</application> what I can do?</para>
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You should submit a bug report to <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-bluetooth"/>.
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