nickclyde / rofi-bluetooth

🔷 A script that generates a rofi menu that uses bluetoothctl to connect to bluetooth devices and display status info.

rofi-bluetooth

bluetoothctl rofi dmenu

Installation

Install from AUR (rofi-bluetooth-git), or:

1. Install dependencies: rofi and bluetoothctl (provided by bluez-utils in Arch)
2. git clone [email protected]:ClydeDroid/rofi-bluetooth.git
3. cd rofi-bluetooth
4. ./rofi-bluetooth
5. (Optional) For easy access, add the script somewhere in your $PATH.

Polybar configuration

NOTE: In order to properly display the bluetooth icon, you will need to use an iconic font in your bar, e.g. Nerd Fonts

[module/bluetooth]
type = custom/script
exec = rofi-bluetooth --status
interval = 1
click-left = rofi-bluetooth &

i3 keybinding

bindsym $mod+b exec --no-startup-id rofi-bluetooth

Thanks for the inspiration!

• firecat53/networkmanager-dmenu
• x70b1's bluetoothctl polybar script

rofi-bluetooth's Issues

Unable to apply theme with config

As of now I applied the theme modifying the main file located at /sbin/rofi-bluetooth, but ideally I'd prefer using a config or appending an argument when running the application. Is there any way to do that?

Arch Linux

Thanks for making this!

I went ahead and published rofi-bluetooth on AUR. Patched rofi_command to make it respect user rofi settings. Happy to hand over the package!

rofi-bluetooth doesn't work with Sway and Rofi (lbonn fork)

Under Arch Linux, with Sway (v1.7) and lbonn's fork of Rofi (v1.7.5), pressing the up/down arrows doesn't do anything, and all I see is the "Bluetooth:" prompt twice (three times if I type some random characters in the prompt).

When I use the script under i3 (also with lbonn's fork of Rofi), it works as expected:

rofi-bluetooth-i3-2022-10-22_12.49.45.mp4

And this is how it looks under Sway:

recording.mp4

I've also tried this fork of Rofi with other custom scripts, and I don't have this problem with them under Sway.

bluetooth label not printing in polybar

Hello I added the polybar module and have nerdfonts installed but I don't get the bluetooth label in my polybar I only get the name of the device once I connect something and that's it ... do I have to do anything else to make this work? thanks in advance

Feature Request: Case Insensitivity

Hi,

I really enjoy this script but I would love if it weren't case sensitive. I don't see how case sensitivity is of any benefit for this utility and rofi is, by default, case-insensitive.

Would you be willing to offer the option to disable case sensitivity?

Thanks

Menu exits after each state-change

Currently turning bluetooth on and connecting to a device looks like this

1. Open rofi bluetooth
2. Power > on
3. Menu closes; Open rofi bluetooth again
4. Device > Connected > yes
5. Menu closes

The menu closes after each state-change. Is this because it takes time to perform the state-change and reflecting it live isn't feasible? It would be much more convenient if it returned to the main rofi-bluetooth menu.

Unable to customize the font in "rofi_command"

Error says pango faliled to parse font. Setting the font through .Xresources also gives a similar error about pango.

Bluetooth menu constantly reopens at startup

Downloading from the aur package and it constantly pops up when I have no Bluetooth connected

feature request: add battery percentage to polybar status

I am really liking this application and am using it in my polybar. I would love to be able to display the remaining battery percentage of my connected device in the polybar status line. Is this something that could be added?

Should rofi-bluetooth accept a -theme arg and set it on rofi_command?

In order to use a consistent theme, I hardcoded -theme PATH_TO_MY_ROFI_THEME_FILE into rofi_command. Should the script accept a -theme flag and modify rofi_command as a result based on the value of that flag?

Edit: In case this makes sense, I'd be happy to send in a PR. 😄

cannot install with `paru` from the AUR

hello there 😋 👋

just wanted to report a little bug trying to install this tool from the AUR with the paru AUR helper 😉

> paru rofi-bluetooth-git
1 aur/rofi-bluetooth-git r33.9d91c04-2 [+9 ~0.00]
    A script that generates a rofi menu that uses bluetoothctl to connect to bluetooth devices and display status info
:: Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3):
:: 1
:: Resolving dependencies...
:: Calculating conflicts...
:: Calculating inner conflicts...

Aur (1) rofi-bluetooth-git-r33.9d91c04-2

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]:

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs...
 PKGBUILDs up to date
 nothing new to review
fetching devel info...
==> Making package: rofi-bluetooth-git r33.9d91c04-2 (Thu 14 Sep 2023 06:51:34 PM CEST)
==> Retrieving sources...
==> ERROR: /home/amtoine/.cache/paru/clone/rofi-bluetooth-git/rofi-bluetooth is not a clone of https://github.com/nickclyde/rofi-bluetooth.git
    Aborting...
error: failed to download sources for 'rofi-bluetooth-git-r33.9d91c04-2':
error: packages failed to build: rofi-bluetooth-git-r33.9d91c04-2

Tagged Releases

It would be nice for downstream distros if there were a release tagged in git/GitHub.

Polybar module toggles continuously when one bluetooth device is connected

For some reason the polybar module using rofi-bluetooth --status, disappears and reappears periodically with the time interval set in the polybar module when one device is connected. However, when two devices are connected, it does not toggle.

Some context:

$ polybar --version
polybar 3.5.4

Polybar module config:

[module/bluetooth]
type = custom/script
exec = rofi-bluetooth --status
interval = 1
click-left = rofi-bluetooth &
format-background = ${color.mb}
format-padding = ${layout.module-padding}

Rofi-bluetooth version:

$ yay -Q rofi-bluetooth-git
rofi-bluetooth-git r18.3b85658-3

While I don't know exactly what caused this behaviour, I was able to fix it by adding

        printf "\n"

at this line.

So I assume when one device was connected, the buffer did not flush properly half of the time.

P.S. this behaviour started after updating this morning.

'$1: unbound variable' in the line 'case "$1" in'

I can run the script from the command line just fine. However, I am running it on NixOS, and am trying to run it using an overlay. When I do so, I get the following error:
$1: unbound variable

refering to this line
case "$1" in

I think it is a bug with the script, and not the setup in NixOS.