{"id":1393,"date":"2025-11-11T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:47:51","slug":"installing-bluetooth-on-debian-lxqt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/installing-bluetooth-on-debian-lxqt\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Bluetooth on Debian LXQt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following shell script will install Bluetooth support on Debian LXQt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>#!\/bin\/bash\n# Debian LXQt - Fresh Bluetooth &amp; PipeWire Audio Setup\n# Cleans old configs, reinstalls required components, and ensures working Bluetooth + audio integration (PipeWire only).\n\nset -e\n\necho \"\ud83e\uddf9 Cleaning old Bluetooth and audio setup...\"\nsudo systemctl stop bluetooth.service || true\nsudo systemctl stop pipewire.service 2>\/dev\/null || true\nsudo systemctl stop wireplumber.service 2>\/dev\/null || true\n\n# Remove old audio\/Bluetooth components (PulseAudio, PipeWire remnants, etc.)\nsudo apt purge -y bluez* blueman pulseaudio* pipewire* wireplumber* libspa-0.2-bluetooth rfkill || true\nsudo apt autoremove -y\nsudo apt clean\n\necho \"\ud83d\udd27 Updating system...\"\nsudo apt update -y &amp;&amp; sudo apt full-upgrade -y\n\necho \"\ud83d\udce6 Installing base Bluetooth + PipeWire stack...\"\nsudo apt install -y \\\n    bluez bluez-obexd rfkill blueman \\\n    pipewire pipewire-audio pipewire-pulse wireplumber libspa-0.2-bluetooth\n\necho \"\u2699\ufe0f Enabling and starting Bluetooth service...\"\nsudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service\nsudo systemctl restart bluetooth.service\n\necho \"\ud83d\udd13 Unblocking Bluetooth radio...\"\nsudo rfkill unblock bluetooth\n\necho \"\ud83d\udd01 Restarting PipeWire audio services...\"\nsystemctl --user daemon-reload\nsystemctl --user enable pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber\nsystemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber\n\necho \"\ud83e\udde0 Setting autostart for Blueman in LXQt...\"\nmkdir -p ~\/.config\/autostart\ncat > ~\/.config\/autostart\/blueman-applet.desktop &lt;&lt;'EOF'\n&#91;Desktop Entry]\nType=Application\nName=Blueman Applet\nExec=blueman-applet\nX-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true\nEOF\n\necho \"\u2705 Bluetooth + PipeWire Audio setup complete!\"\necho \"\ud83d\udc49 Reboot or log out\/in to apply changes and show the tray icon.\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following shell script will install Bluetooth support on Debian LXQt:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology","tag-debian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}