Screenshot showing pavucontrol side-by-side with gnome-control-center and gnome-shell's bluetooth devices listing. Only pavucontrol reflects the fact that two of the paired devices are connected, whereas other GUIs only indicate one "connected" device at once.

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   Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Oct-2025 23:23:59 JST Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

   Found why the #Bluetooth behavior in #GNOME was so confusing to me over the years: while my computer (and the gnome-bluetooth backend) supports connecting & pairing multiple devices at once, it turns out that #BlueZ sometimes reports some devices as disconnected when reactivating Bluetooth… so I end up accidentally disconnecting a device when I think it is not already connected :blobpats:

   …as discovered in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8692, it turns out to be a BlueZ issue… but BlueZ has no bug tracker 🫠