Bug 435885

Summary:	Disable Bluetooth across sessions
Product:	[Unmaintained] Bluedevil	Reporter:	DaCoEx <dacoex>
Component:	system tray	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	me, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.21.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description DaCoEx 2021-04-18 18:07:32 UTC

SUMMARY
It would e great to be able to disable bluetooth across sessions.

I do need Bluetooth only occasionally.
To save energy & reduce an attack vector (security) I disable the bluetooth after login.
This needs to happen every time I log into Plasma.
It would be great to make this persistent across sessions.
The only other option is to disable Bluetooth in bios which is rather uncomfortable.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Log into plasma
2. disable bluetooth
3. reboot
4. Log into plasma
5. disable bluetooth

OBSERVED RESULT
Need to disable bluetooth at every log-in

EXPECTED RESULT
Bluetooth is disabled across sessions

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 21.04 (beta)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-13-generic
OS Type: 64-bit

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-04-21 20:10:57 UTC

Are you saying that

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 429519 ***

Comment 2 ratijas 2024-07-20 10:24:03 UTC

Same advice as in BUG 429519:

> If you want to disable your whole Bluetooth stack at login, you should go to the System Settings -> Bluetooth, Enable (if it is disabled, otherwise the following UI won't show up), tap Configure, and on that configuration page select "On login:" "Disable Bluetooth" option.

Comment 3 ratijas 2024-07-20 10:26:12 UTC

Note that there is also a report of Bluetooth not restoring its previous state on login as configured: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488652 (although I didn't manage to reproduce it).