Hi
Leap 15.3
I am experiencing issues with my Bluetooth mouse. On boot, it will not connect unless I press the button on the mouse and manually reconnect by opening the app in the system tray and clicking “connect”. If I then work for a while without using the mouse (or watch a film etc.) it takes a few seconds for the cursor to appear after I move the mouse.
My bluetooth headphones however connect as soon as I power them on.
Please could anyone help?
Thank you
Richard
Please indicate which Desktop environment you’re using.
Sorry. It’s KDE.
Please take a look at the output of “rfkill list” – it may well be that, Bluetooth has been accidentally blocked, for whatever reason.
Both soft and hard blocked are reported as NO.
This is standard behaviour for the bluetooth mouse that I own. If not used for while, it will go into a ‘sleep’ mode and needs time after being moved again before it reconnects.
Different hardware - different behaviour IMHO.
Good point - I think it might be the mouse itself, as having read the specs. it says it has “smart power saving”. The strange thing is however, that I was using the same mouse on a Windows machine and the problem never happened.
So, I am wondering if there is a difference in the Linux bluetooth stack, or some setting somewhere which allows this to be controlled?
I rarely use Windows, and I have never used Windows with a bluetooth mouse, so I can’t offer any experience wrt a comparison.
Perhaps Windows, once mouse is paired, continues to send a signal to the mouse to keep it active (and hence potentially run down the mouse battery quicker under MS-Windows < my speculation > ). Do you have any experience wrt the time between charging when comparing Microsoft Windows use to GNU/Linux use?