On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 12:55 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, George. Yes, I only need bluetooth to connect audio from my > computer to my bluetooth headphones and bluetooth speakers. > > From what you said, I infer that bluetooth can be more general than > connecting only audio -- I did not know that.
Indeed. If you connect a "Bluetooth host controller" directly to your computer (usually by USB), then it will show up in the XFCE Bluetooth manager and you can configure everything from there: connect to specific devices, etc. When you use a device like yours that has a Bluetooth host controller inside it but has only an audio connection to your computer, the UI is typically minimal (e.g., a single button) and you may not be able to do things like tell it to make a Bluetooth connection to a specific device. The most popular other uses for Bluetooth are: - Mouse and keyboard input - Networking. It's pretty slow but can be useful if your Wi-Fi is taken for something else. For example, I use a Bluetooth network to synchronize my personal information management applications between my phone and my computer via various HTTPS- and SSH-based protocols without relying on any external service. Matt _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
