[solved] mate dinit system w/o BT icon in the task bar? bluetoothctl only?

06 April 2022, 05:21:43

so i got bluetooth running and connectd with bluetoothctl but i can't find a taskbar bluetooth icon to save my life.

guess i'm a bit spoiled with gui

```
sudo inxi -Fxzmc0

System:
Kernel: 5.16.16-artix1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 Distro: Artix Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: MINIX product: N42C-4 v: N/A serial: N/A
Mobo: MINIX model: N42C-4 serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5.12
date: 11/16/2018
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M570 charge: 100%
status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360
charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.48 GiB used: 1.83 GiB (11.9%)
Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max-module-size: 8 GiB
note: est.
Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s type: DDR3
Device-2: ChannelB-DIMM0 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s type: DDR3
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Pentium J4205 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Goldmont rev: 9 cache: L1: 224 KiB L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2395 high: 2396 min/max: 800/2600 cores: 1: 2396
2: 2396 3: 2394 4: 2396 bogomips: 11984
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Integrated
Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display: server: X.org 1.21.1.3 driver: loaded: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 505 (APL 3) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.1
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster
vendor: Realtek driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:0e.0
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.16-artix1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak]
driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-5:2
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 148.36 GiB used: 11 GiB (7.4%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 vendor: Samsung model: BJTD4R size: 29.12 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: MINIX model: NEO-SSD-128GB size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 39.08 GiB used: 8.04 GiB (20.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 188 Uptime: 34m Init: N/A Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 Packages: 875
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.12
```

Re: mate dinit system with no bluetooth icon in the task bar? bluetoothctl only?

Reply #1 – 06 April 2022, 16:20:42

sudo pacman -S python-setuptools

yay -S blueman-git

there be whales here captin!