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This GNOME Extension Shows AirPods Battery Levels in Ubuntu

Do you use Apple AirPods or Beats wireless headphones with Ubuntu (or any Linux distribution using GNOME Shell) and want to be able to check battery levels on your desktop? Well, now you can! The new Airpod Battery Monitor GNOME Shell extension makes i…

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How to Enable Bluez Experimental Features in Ubuntu

Bugged by a Bluetooth device you use not showing battery levels in Ubuntu? There is a something you can try that may get it to appear. Ubuntu, like most desktop Linux distributions Ubuntu, use Bluez as its Bluetooth stack. This powerful, open-source te…

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Put Bluetooth Battery Levels in Ubuntu’s Quick Settings Menu

A new GNOME Shell extension makes it easier to check Bluetooth battery status in Ubuntu 23.10. Emphasis on easier as we can already see battery level for connected Bluetooth devices from the Settings > Power pane, no extensions required. But out of sig…

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8 Useful Bluetooth Tools for Linux

There are many other useful Bluetooth tools available for Linux. This article showcases a list of eight of our favorites.
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GNOME 43.2 Brings Improvements to Screencast UI, Bluetooth, More

GNOME 43.2 is packed with lots of changes to improve edge resistance and display. Learn more about what features this new release has to offer.
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This Extension Adds Bluetooth Management to GNOME Quick Settings

Connect to bluetooth devices from the new Quick Settings menu in GNOME 43 with this neat, community-made extension for GNOME Shell. It’s neat!
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Raspberry Pi OS New Release Improves Detection of Bluetooth HID

The new Raspberry Pi OS release comes just two weeks after the previous one. Raspberry Pi OS 2022-09-22 is here to improve the detection of Bluetooth HID devices and the startup speed of LXPanel network controller plugins. Learn more here.
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth Speaker with PipeWire

Using PipeWire, WirePlumber, and a Raspberry Pi, you can create an audio bridge between a Bluetooth device and an analog speaker system, breathing new life into your old speakers. Here’s how!   Editor’s Note: I’ve done this, adding a DAC from Hifiberry to the Pi, then connecting to a powered sub with speaker system. It […]

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How to Set Up Bluetooth in Linux

Not all Linux distributions come with Bluetooth installed. This tutorial shows how you can easily set up Bluetooth in Linux.
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Linux Mint is Making a Major Bluetooth Change

Linux Mint 21 will ship with Blueman as its default Bluetooth manager. Mint’s lead developer cites issues with the current gnome-bluetooth backend.
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New Ubuntu Linux Security Patches Fix Up to Seven Vulnerabilities, Update Now

The new Ubuntu Linux security patches are available for the Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo), Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series, and addresses three security issues related to the Bluetooth subsystem and NFC implementation affecting all three releases. These are CVE-2021-3564 and CVE-2021-3573, two flaws discovered in the […]

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