I’m not doing that, I’m very sorry if it looks like that q.q I am not be posting for that!! I just want to be with Linux friends + show my modifications and ask questions!! n.n
Built-in Bluetooth modules tend to “just work” for the most part, but external adapters are a whole other story. They are a pain and it’s best to buy them from somewhere that won’t ask questions if you try to return it.
My need for bluetooth headphone is very simple, if I can understand youtube videos, I am happy. And I am using WF-1000MX4, which works wonderfully just using the gnome gui.
I never need to worry about pipwire or pulse audio etc.
Fun fact to keep in mind about your MX4 - if you use the “pair with two devices simultaneously” feature, the headphones shut off their LDAC support. All you get is the baseline audio codec. Nice, huh?
(I have the over the ear XM3 that don’t support multiple devices, but also have a Bose 700 that does. The Bose 700 does AAC, but I find SBC-XQ better. On the Sony it’s a toss-up, so I stick to LDAC. I’m using Fedora Silverblue 39 with PipeWire for reference.)
I haven’t had much luck with XQ. I don’t believe that Bluetooth can reliably find enough bandwidth for it, unless you’re willing to blow up a few neighbor’s WiFi points/baby monitors/microwaves/weather radar stations.
I need a bash script to restart all my bluetooth modules, bluez, bluetoothctl, eyc. because my laptop likes to make bluetooth unavailable, usually after a few hours of suspend. The script always works, and other than that I use another bash script to toggle connection to my airpods / toggle them as the default default audio output. I find it always works great besides the restartint caveat.
Bluetooth sucks on all platforms. It may be worse on Linux, but given how often my coworkers on Mac and Windows have audio issues it meetings, not by much.
Get a good set of RF wireless headphones and only use Bluetooth when you’re traveling.
I don’t use Bluetooth a whole lot on my Linux box (Arch Linux 20231128, MATE Desktop Environment, bluetoothd, pulseaudio). That said, I have blueman-manager in my system tray all the time, and it seems to do a decent job of managing two pairs of headphones (they’re there, and I use them occasionally, just not often). The thing that seems to work for me is to use pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control) to set the parameters of the Bluetooth headphones while they’re active and associated, and those settings are stored for later. That way, when I’m wearing a pair of those headphones my laptop’s speakers are automatically muted, the Bluetooth headphones go back to where I had them before, and whatever I happen to be playing back through (Firefox, vlc, whatever) automatically cut over to them and away from the (now muted) speakers).
I guess I just did it one step at a time - get bluetooth turned on, get a pair of headphones associated with them, then turn off speakers, then… I iterated on it until I had something that worked.
No issues currently using pop os. I don’t use the graphical Bluetooth manager, for whatever that’s worth. I wrohe a script that connects and disconnects with bluetoothctl, and I pair and trust devices with bluetoothctl. I use several different headphones.
Occasionally, I have to go into the audio settings to change the destination, or tap a button on my headphones, but that’s about it.
I haven’t had any issues.
But it’s not uncommon to a problem somewhere in the Bluetooth stack. It’s important you report any bugs you come across to the respective projects, because of how diverse Bluetooth devices are it’s hard to get perfect support for everything.
So I’ve recently moved over to using my Pixel buds pro almost full time and am hoping you stoke a convo here to revisit.
KDE Connect affords us the ability to fire off commands from a phone to do any number of things. One use case of mine is to disconnect/reconnect Bluetooth devices from the desktop since it is greedy and tends to bogart my earbuds when playback stops on other connections. This has worked pretty well so far but with that in mind, I have only just started playing around with things and so I look forward to refining the experience with other utilities.
That said, I find Bluetooth is buggy on almost every OS out there (Android is constantly in what feels like a state of repair…)
Best of luck!
There should be a setting in BIOS for sleep state that lets you choose between “Windows sleep” and “Linux sleep”. I know I have to set that to “Linux sleep” on my P14s gen 2 AMD or it wakes up immediately after going to sleep. Updating BIOS and the other firmwares might help too.
However I have a gen 7 from work running Windows that often fails to wake up from sleep or hibernation, and I have to resort to poking the reset button to get it to respond. Coworkers report similar troubles so I think it may be a cursed model.
That said, I’m running OpenSuSE Tumbleweed KDE on my P14s and an X1 gen 5. Everything works smooth out if the box on both machines except for the fingerprint sensor on the gen 5 which doesn’t have mainline fprintd support in any distro.
Oh wow, I hadn’t ever noticed that when poking around in the BIOS, I’ll have to find that setting, and cross my fingers I didn’t buy a cursed model laptop.
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