bluetooth - how to pair phones

[Matt Morris]

No need to pair devices.

Just install 'gnome-bluetooth'

Then you will get a program in Accessories to allow you to receive
files, and to send a file, just Right-click on it, select 'Send-to...'
then Bluetooth and the name of the device.



On 10/8/06, Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 13:34 +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > i have a few bluetooth enabled phones that i want to pair with ubuntu.
> > i try sending files to the phone but then the phone askes for a pin
> > code to pair. ubuntu doesnt ask me 4 the pin & it fails the transfer
> >
> > i have done
> > hcitool scan
> > & gotten the mac address of the cell
>
> I was trying this recently using gnome-bluetooth-manager with similar
> results - the pin dialog that is supposed to appear wouldn't.
>
> After some debugging, I eventually figured out that there's a dbus
> service trying to pop up the dialog, and failing because it's running as
> a user that doesn't have access to my Xserver.
>
> I ran 'xhost +local:' to allow all local users to display dialogs, and
> it could immediately pop up the dialog box correctly.
>
> J.
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