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wkat4242
Ohhhh another one! Hopefully this one will actually work and do its job without remembering 20 different arcane incantations.
lkdfjlkdfjlg
Ugh the one I know is bluetoothctl and it sucks.
tetris11
I like it. When clicking fails, bluetoothctl is there for me to easily disconnect, pair, connect, connect again until my device registers.

Without it, Bluetooth is literally blackbox for me

extua
I use this as it's the default on Manjaro Sway. The interface is straightforward and (despite the general jankiness of Bluetooth) it's pretty reliable.
WhyNotHugo
I've been using bluetuith for a couple of months now and it's worked pretty well. It's a TUI, not a CLI, which makes a lot easier/faster to use than bluetoothctl.

Some controls are a bit weird, but they're all right there on screen anyway, so not hard to remember. It works fine, which is more than I can say for any other bluetooth UI.

myworkinisgood
Is there any huge benefit over something like bluetoothctl?
ranguna
From the parent comment:

> a lot easier/faster to use than bluetoothctl.

Not sure if that was added in after posted your question.

phaedrix
I used to use Bluetooth to, but the TUI nature of Bluetooth makes it so much easier.
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moondev
Using qemu on macOS, can you pass the Bluetooth controller to a Linux VM and use this? I seem to remember that pairing a Bluetooth mouse with only a keyboard was absolute torture