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Enable bluetooth management via GUI on Fedora
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- Martin Andrews
- @mdda123
Enable bluetooth management via blueman GUI on Fedora
After an update in (maybe) 2021, a new 'permissions required' / 'RFKill' popup started to appear on Fedora - and it finally bothered me enough to track down the cause, and fix it.
Presumably, there's an equivalent group for Fedora for Debian's netdev, but it's not clear what the choice should be - hence the below is quick-and-dirty for the (sole) desktop user on my laptop.
Following this suggestion. I added the following file, enabling RFKill access for the desktop user with group=groupname :
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/81-blueman.rules
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.blueman.rfkill.setstate"
&& subject.local && subject.active
&& subject.isInGroup("groupname")) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
if (action.id == "org.blueman.network.setup"
&& subject.local && subject.active
&& subject.isInGroup("groupname")) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});
The GUI bluetooth manager app will now stop hassling you with "RFKill" messages.