{"id":2196,"date":"2026-09-21T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:03:50","slug":"bluetooth-on-cachyos-lxqt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/bluetooth-on-cachyos-lxqt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth on CachyOS LXQt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To add a Bluetooth icon to the LXQt panel (taskbar) on CachyOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Install Bluetooth packages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils blueman<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Enable and start the Bluetooth service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check status with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>systemctl status bluetooth<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unblock the adapter if needed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>rfkill unblock bluetooth<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Make sure the system tray is on the panel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Right-click an empty area on the panel \u2192 <strong>Configure Panel<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to the <strong>Widgets<\/strong> tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure <strong>Status Notifier<\/strong> (preferred) or the older <strong>System Tray<\/strong> is present.<br>If missing, click <strong>+<\/strong> \u2192 add <strong>Status Notifier<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Start the Blueman tray icon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>blueman-applet &amp;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bluetooth icon should appear in the system tray area of the panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Make it start automatically<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blueman usually creates \/etc\/xdg\/autostart\/blueman.desktop, so it should start on login.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it doesn\u2019t:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open <strong>LXQt Session Settings<\/strong> (or search for \u201cSession Settings\u201d).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to <strong>Autostart<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add a new entry:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Name: Blueman Applet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Command: blueman-applet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alternatively, create the file manually:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>mkdir -p ~\/.config\/autostart\ncat &gt; ~\/.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<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extra tips<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Left-click the icon to open the device list \/ manager.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right-click for power on\/off, adapters, local services, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the icon is missing after reboot, confirm blueman-applet is running (ps aux | grep blueman) and that the Status Notifier widget is on the panel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You may need to add your user to the lp group for some operations:<br>sudo usermod -aG lp $USER (then log out\/in).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After these steps the Bluetooth icon should stay on the LXQt taskbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To add a Bluetooth icon to the LXQt panel (taskbar) on CachyOS: 1. Install Bluetooth packages Bash 2. Enable and start the Bluetooth service Bash Check status with: Bash Unblock the adapter if needed: Bash 3. Make sure the system tray is on the panel 4. Start the Blueman tray icon Run: Bash The Bluetooth &#8230; <a title=\"Bluetooth on CachyOS LXQt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/bluetooth-on-cachyos-lxqt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bluetooth on CachyOS LXQt\">Read more<\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","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=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}