Bluetooth always on

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1

Hi guys, I have a Thinkpad X220, with a mechanical switch to turn on the bluetooth, every time I start the operating system the bluetooth is active via software.
Thanks in advance.

2

Laptops always have more problems because of unsupported hardware, are you sure it’s Bluetooth itself and not just the LED?

3

I am sure

4

You can set a startup script to disable it using bluetoothctl. On my laptop, the setting is recalled as long as I don’t remove the battery. However, everytime I disable/enable WiFi, bluetooth is also activated. For this I set a shortcut to easily enalbe/disable bluetooth.

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The scripts are the following:

[mbb@mbb-laptop ~]$ cat .bin/Bluetooth-on.sh 
#!/bin/bash

RFBLUE=$(rfkill | grep bluetooth)
if [ "${RFBLUE:0:1}" == " " ]; then
        rfkill unblock $(rfkill | grep bluetooth | cut -d ' ' -f2)
else
        rfkill unblock $(rfkill | grep bluetooth | cut -d ' ' -f1)
fi
[mbb@mbb-laptop ~]$ cat .bin/Bluetooth-off.sh 
#!/bin/bash

RFBLUE=$(rfkill | grep bluetooth)
if [ "${RFBLUE:0:1}" == " " ]; then
        rfkill block $(rfkill | grep bluetooth | cut -d ' ' -f2)
else
        rfkill block $(rfkill | grep bluetooth | cut -d ' ' -f1)
fi