I ❤️ shortcuts #11 - Bluetooth

Bluetooth is convenient to connect external speakers or earbuds. On Linux, you have bluez-* and blueman to manage your wireless connections, but you have to use the … mouse. My Debian runs awesomewm, and everything is about keybindings, and lightness. The mouse is a device I use when I don’t have any other option. And, to connect quickly, I use of course fzf and a little function: bt() { local device action device=$(bluetoothctl devices | fzf --height=40% --reverse \ --prompt="Select device: " \ --preview="bluetoothctl info {2}" \ | awk '{print $2}') [ -z "$device" ] && return if bluetoothctl info "$device" | grep -q "Connected: yes"; then action="disconnect" else action="connect" fi echo "$action to $(bluetoothctl info "$device" | grep Name | cut -d: -f2-)..." bluetoothctl "$action" "$device" } And, the output is: If the device is connected, it will disconnect it, and vice versa. That’s it! Once again, shell scripts are great for small things like this one.