[Bug 428151] Re: Tray icon of bluetooth-applet not updated

[GeorgeVita]

I am using an EeePC 1000H which has an 'integrated' bluetooth module.
You can enable/disable it via BIOS setup (pressing F2 at boot).

When the bluetooth is disabled the 'bluetooth-applet' process is running
but the icon is not on top panel. From System > Preferences > Bluetooth
you can be informed that you have NO bluetooth connected (accepted as it
is disabled from BIOS) .

When the bluetooth is enabled from BIOS,  the 'bluetooth-applet' process
is running and the icon appears BUT there is no on/off menu (as
described on previous posted comments).

You can 'get' the 'good' menu selections doing the following:

Open a terminal window, find the process number of 'bluetooth-applet',
kill it, run again 'bluetooth-applet', it is running at DEBUG mode,
close the terminal window:

g at KKsep15:~$ ps -A | grep -i blue
  283 ?        00:00:00 bluetooth
 2411 ?        00:00:00 bluetooth-apple
 2429 ?        00:00:00 bluetoothd
g at KKsep15:~$ sudo kill 2411
[sudo] password for g: 
g at KKsep15:~$ ps -A | grep -i blue
  283 ?        00:00:00 bluetooth
 2429 ?        00:00:00 bluetoothd
g at KKsep15:~$ sudo bluetooth-applet 
** Message: adding killswitch idx 1 state 1
** Message: adding killswitch idx 2 state 1
** Message: Reading of RFKILL events failed
** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
** Message: killswitch 2 is 1
** Message: killswitches state 1
** Message: killswitch 1 is 1
** Message: killswitch 2 is 1
** Message: killswitches state 1

>From this time menu selections change in a better way, on/off can be
done BUT your 'actions' affect  also BIOS flags! Turning off bluetooth
module disable BIOS flag and in your next boot the module seems to be
'unpluged'.

If a developer can fix applet to be always in the 'good menu selections' (with on/off function) it helps if also:
- allow user to toggle BIOS flag ("kill switch"?) via System >Preferences > Bluetooth
- OR find the higher level flag to toggle (s/w equivalent but not the BIOS one)
- OR allow to force bluetooth icon always on top panel.

Regards,
George

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Tray icon of bluetooth-applet not updated 
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