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Whenever I turn on my laptop, the Bluetooth applet shows up on the system tray, and Bluetooth is enabled. I rarely ever use it however, and I'd like it to be disabled by default, to avoid battery consumption.
Is there a way for that?
Malabarba
Posted 2010-02-04T10:42:14.280
Reputation: 7 588
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These instructions will show you how to stop a program loading during start up, but this does not completely disable bluetooth.
To disable bluetooth, try these scripts at the Ubuntuforums.
Iain
Posted 2010-02-04T10:42:14.280
Reputation: 4 399
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This solution works on my Ubuntu 12.04 and I guess it also depends on the bluetooth stack the distribution is using. The following two commands are used to soft block/unblock the bluetooth. They are in sync with the Blueman Applet. I haven't tested other applets.
sudo rfkill block bluetooth
sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth
You can check the current status of your devices with:
rfkill list
Andrea Richiardi
Posted 2010-02-04T10:42:14.280
Reputation: 123
I believe this doesn't disable Bluetooth - just prevents the applet from starting. – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-02-04T14:44:19.763
Sathya is right. I updated my answer. – Iain – 2010-02-04T14:52:24.703