[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#471148: bluez-gnome: bluetooth-applet should allow to disable bluetooth

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:15:07AM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Hi,
> in the are of extended mobility life it would be nice if the
> bluetooth-applet would enable the user to switch off bluetooth
> alltogether. Another nice thing would be to be able to configure an
> idle timeout of the bluetooth e.g. after 10 Minuten of not discovering
> new devices or without connection disable bluetooth until user requests
> enabling. As interface configuration is a root only thing one would need
> to utilize dbus for this ...

there's currently no way to do that over the current dbus api AFAIK

> 
> Bluetooth is currently the source of the most wakeups on my notebook
> (Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8110) and i can only disable it by opening
> a terminal and issueing a "sudo hciconfig hci0 down" which is not really
> a solution for Aunt Tilly ...
> 
> Top causes for wakeups:
>   85.7% (953.0)   /sys/bus/usb/devices/4-2 

a number so high of wakeups is rather strange, how long is the period of
powertop? 5s?


filippo
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