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 (>= 4.25)
- dbus
- dbus-python
- GLib 2 (>= 2.32)
- GTK+ 2 (>= 2.16)
- libappindicator (optional)
- notification-daemon
- notify-python
- obex-data-server (>= 0.4.3)
- pulseaudio
- PyGObject
- PyGTK (>= 2.16)
- Python 2 (>= 2.6)
- 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.
Development snapshots of blueman 2:
Older versions:
- CentOS
- Fedora
- Gentoo Linux
- Linux Mint
- Mageia
- openSUSE
Fork, make your changes and issue a pull request. If you just want to edit a single file (e.g. translations in the po folder), GitHub will guide you through that process.