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A few days ago I turned on Bluetooth on my laptop and then turned it off.

Now I see every time I start the laptop, I see the Bluetooth is turned on and I should turn it off manually and sometimes I forget.

How should I fix this problem? (I'm using Ubuntu 18.04)

Sepideh Abadpour
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There are more technical solutions - none of which worked for me, at least, not without killing the manager or the adapter - so, after a couple of hours going around in circles, I gave in and made a simple "fix" - I wanted to keep the icon, essentially, but have bluetooth switched off at start up.

  1. Create a file, call it sbo.sh, the contents of which should be:
    #!/bin/bash
    sleep 1
    rfkill block bluetooth

  2. I saved this in /opt (any user space would do), then made sure I was owner:
    sudo chown myname:myname /opt/sbo.sh
    ...and that it was executable:
    sudo chmod u+x /opt/sbo.sh

  3. Then I opened "Startup Applications Preferences" Clicked on "Add" then entered the following details:
    Name: Switch Bluetooth Off
    Command: /opt/sbo.sh
    Comment: Switch off bluetooth but keep icon at start

Seems to work. The one second pause ("sleep 1" in step 1) is important... it's enough of a lag for the device to become enabled. Doubtless not the most elegant work around, but after a couple of hours twiddling with things (like /etc/rc.local, systemd, etc.) to no avail... it's something that works.

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