I've checked the threads Bluetooth indicator disappears (...) and Bluetooth Settings Missing from Upper Right Corner (...) , but thus far the solutions didn't quite solve my problem.
The issue I'm having is, that most times when I turn off the Bluetooth from the top panel (in reality I'm using the dash-to-panel
gnome extension but even after disabling all the extensions and using the default top panel, the issue still persists), the Bluetooth indicator disappears, and if I want to turn it on again, I have to go to the settings and turn it on there, which can get annoying from time to time.
Not sure if it's a bug or a feature. The first link mentioned above I tried the accepted solution, it showed that I needed some dependencies, and when I went on to install said dependencies, it gave me the error that they couldn't be installed, vaguely speaking (I'm a bit of a new Linux user still so it took me a while to install some of the packages in order to pursue that solution, and when I managed to install them and got shown the error when installing the dependencies I just sort of figured that there must be an easier way to resolve this issue).
The second link, a user provides a script solution that runs in the background, but in order for it to have an effect, the display must be reloaded (by pressing alt+F2 and then typing r and pressing return) every time the Bluetooth is turned off via the top panel, which I wouldn't find very ideal.
I know that the setting had-bluetooth-devices-setup
, in the dconf
editor, when set to True
shows the Bluetooth indicator even when it's turned off, which is what I would like. But, almost every time I turn the Bluetooth off, that setting gets turned off automatically, making the Bluetooth indicator disappear.
I'm experiencing this issue on a laptop with Ubuntu installed on it. However, I also have a personal computer with Pop_OS! installed. In the computer with Pop_OS! installed, when the bluetooth is turned off, the indicator doesn't disappear from the top panel menu, without fail; it remains in the menu in the top panel when clicking there, and I don't have to go to the settings to turn the bluetooth on. The opposite happens in the Ubuntu laptop; upon turning the bluetooth off from the top panel menu, the bluetooth indicator just disappears, and I'm forced to go into settings if I wish to turn the bluetooth back on. If there was a way to port the bluetooth behaviour from Pop_OS! to Ubuntu then that would be great.
For reference, here is how it looks like on the Ubuntu laptop when bluetooth is turned on:
And here's how the menu looks on the Ubuntu laptop upon clicking and the bluetooth is turned off:
This is how it looks like when the bluetooth is turned off on the desktop computer with Pop_OS! installed:
Any help would be appreciated.