I am using an EeePC 1000H which has an 'integrated' bluetooth module. You can enable/disable it via BIOS setup (pressing F2 at boot).
When the bluetooth is disabled the 'bluetooth-applet' process is running but the icon is not on top panel. From System > Preferences > Bluetooth you can be informed that you have NO bluetooth connected (accepted as it is disabled from BIOS) . When the bluetooth is enabled from BIOS, the 'bluetooth-applet' process is running and the icon appears BUT there is no on/off menu (as described on previous posted comments). You can 'get' the 'good' menu selections doing the following: Open a terminal window, find the process number of 'bluetooth-applet', kill it, run again 'bluetooth-applet', it is running at DEBUG mode, close the terminal window: g...@kksep15:~$ ps -A | grep -i blue 283 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth 2411 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth-apple 2429 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd g...@kksep15:~$ sudo kill 2411 [sudo] password for g: g...@kksep15:~$ ps -A | grep -i blue 283 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth 2429 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd g...@kksep15:~$ sudo bluetooth-applet ** Message: adding killswitch idx 1 state 1 ** Message: adding killswitch idx 2 state 1 ** Message: Reading of RFKILL events failed ** Message: killswitch 1 is 1 ** Message: killswitch 2 is 1 ** Message: killswitches state 1 ** Message: killswitch 1 is 1 ** Message: killswitch 2 is 1 ** Message: killswitches state 1 >From this time menu selections change in a better way, on/off can be done BUT your 'actions' affect also BIOS flags! Turning off bluetooth module disable BIOS flag and in your next boot the module seems to be 'unpluged'. If a developer can fix applet to be always in the 'good menu selections' (with on/off function) it helps if also: - allow user to toggle BIOS flag ("kill switch"?) via System >Preferences > Bluetooth - OR find the higher level flag to toggle (s/w equivalent but not the BIOS one) - OR allow to force bluetooth icon always on top panel. Regards, George -- Tray icon of bluetooth-applet not updated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428151 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs