See this thread for details: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/bluetooth-earphones-connected-but-sound-doesnt-go-through-them/170713/9 I have a pair of bluetooth earphones. I connect them, they show as connected, and yet, the sound still goes to the speakers and the speakers only (if external speakers are connected to the minijack output, sound goes there; if they are not, sound goes to the laptop's builtin speakers, but never to the bluetooth earphones). Nowhere is there any UI to tell the system that I want the audio to go to the connected bluetooth earphones, which should be the default anyway. Either something is not working, or the UI is stupidly difficult to figure out. There are screenshot in the form thread I linked. I would copy and paste them but this stupid bug tracker in 2025 doesn't support pasting images, and I'm not going to download and upload them. *** If you're not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at https://discuss.kde.org If you're reporting a crash, attach a backtrace with debug symbols; see https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports Please remove this comment after reading and before submitting - thanks! *** SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. connect bluetooth audio device such as earphones 2. play some output 3. OBSERVED RESULT Sound plays through builtin speakers or minijack output and there's no UI anywhere in any reasonable place where one might look to select where to route the audio output EXPECTED RESULT either the audio should go automatically to the bluetooth earphones while they are connected by default, or there should be a way to select them so that it does. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.6.75-2-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1255U Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product Name: Vivobook_ASUSLaptop X1502ZA_F1502ZA System Version: 1.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Thank you for the bug report! However Plasma 6.2.5 is no longer eligible for support or maintenance from KDE; supported versions are 5.27. (LTS), and 6.3 (non-LTS) or newer. Please upgrade to a supported version as soon as your distribution makes it available to you. Plasma is a fast-moving project, and bugs in one version are often fixed in the next one. If you need support for Plasma 6.2.5, please contact your distribution, who bears the responsibility of providing support for older releases that are no longer supported by KDE. If you can reproduce the issue after upgrading to a supported version, feel free to re-open this bug report.
WTF?? 6.2.5 is the latest available through Pamac and it's already outdated??