Farran Lee wrote: > there is this... but on my laptop it will run, but won't find any > bluetooth devices. The command is "kbtobexclient", but it is a kde > program. It's called Bluetooth OBEX Client - it worked fine on our > main pc though. Try it, see what it does for you. > > Also, try gnome-obex-server. When you run it, there is a little icon > in the system tray (sorry - window$ term). In Nautilus, right click on > the file you want to send and select 'Send to'. In there, you can > select use of the Bluetooth client and then pick the device to send it to. > > I have noticed that Ubuntu doesn't seem to support background scanning > for services. I haven't really looked into it much, but I noticed that > it will only find wireless networks when you tell it to. To make my > laptop see my phone through bluetooth, I have to send something from > my phone to my laptop first (I use the integrated nautilus bluetooth > client). > > Hope the first half helped! > fazza :) > ps I'm only 14, so I could be wrong on the programs! ;) > > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 09:02 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: >> I've been fiddling with bluetooth in Ubuntu, and have been a wee bit >> surprised that I don't seem to be able to find a good gui, that >> integrates all of the functions I want to use. >> >> For instance, when transferring a file from PC to mobile phone for >> instance, it seems you have to use the command: >> >> gnome-obex-send filenamehere >> >> Or create yourself a desktop shortcut with gnome-obex-send as the >> command, and drag and drop. >> >> Is there a gui that ties bluetooth filesharing together in an easy to >> use app? If not, perhaps it's something to try and figure out as part >> of my embryonic programming skills ;-) >> >> Cheers >> >> Chris >> >> Yep as well as having "gnome-bluetooth" [1] installed which should provide the "right click file send to.." in nautilus (the file manager) you might also like to look at installing "gnome-phone-manager" [2] - which works especially well with nokia phones
Bluetooth support isn't particularly good in ubuntu yet (compared to fedora for example) but it's getting there. [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeBluetooth [2] http://live.gnome.org/PhoneManager If you have problems i'm quite well versed in bluetooth on Linux/Gnome Michael GD Wood -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/