Blueman is a GTK+ Bluetooth Manager
Blueman is designed to provide simple, yet effective means for controlling BlueZ API and simplifying bluetooth tasks such as:
- Connecting to 3G/EDGE/GPRS via dial-up
- Connecting to/Creating bluetooth networks
- Connecting to input devices
- Connecting to audio devices
- Sending/Receiving/Browsing files via OBEX
- Pairing
It is lightweight, easy to use, Python bases and GPL licensed.
The original project page of Valmantas Palikša can be found here. Please use the GitHub issue tracker for bugs and questions.
The latest stable version is 1.23 released in Oct. 2011.
Blueman 2 will especially bring support for newer APIs like BlueZ 5 and NetworkManager 0.9 and fix a number of issues.
- BlueZ 4 (>= 4.61)
- dbus
- dbus-python
- GLib 2 (>= 2.32)
- GTK+ 3
- gnome-icon-theme or mate-icon-theme
- libappindicator (optional)
- notification-daemon or any desktop specific replacement
- libnotify
- obexd for sending files
- obex-data-server (>= 0.4.3) for receiving files
- pulseaudio
- PyGObject
- Python 2.7
- startup-notification
To install a packaged release of blueman, run ./configure && make && make install.
To generate and run a configure script from source, run ./autogen.sh.
- Arch Linux
- Debian GNU/Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Linux Mint
- OpenMandriva
- openSUSE
- Ubuntu
Feel free to open a GitHub issue for anything you need help with. If you're reporting a bug, please read the Troubleshooting page to provide all relevant information.
Fork, make your changes, and issue a pull request. If you just want to edit a single file, GitHub will guide you through that process.
Translations are managed with transifex. Go to transifex blueman project page.