Bluetooth Keyboard on Qubes OS?

qubehead38 · February 25, 2025, 6:42pm

Hello all esteemed qubeheads. Today i got new keyboard that is bluetooth only.

How can i easily use it for all qubes?
I have usb receiver dongle on my pc, that is recognized and working, but i cannot connect that to sys-usb qube it says “permission denied”

qubehead38 · February 26, 2025, 11:31pm

I found solution, in case anyone else wonders, just run these on “sys-usb” terminal



bluetoothctl
power off
power on
agent KeyboardOnly
default-agent
pairable on
scan on
pair <mac address>
## the passkey will be printed, enter it on your keyboard ##
trust <mac address>
connect <mac address>
quit

PostedPortal · February 28, 2025, 11:08pm

could this be used to connect bluetooth headphones?

I have reviewed sys-audio but it seems its too complicated for me at this time.

kenosen · March 1, 2025, 12:27am

Potentially, but you’d have to set the qube in which the audio is playing to use sys-usb as its audioVM, via: qvm-prefs [qubename] audiovm sys-usb

Qusal has a virtually painless sys-audio setup:

github.com/ben-grande/qusal

salt/sys-audio/README.md

main

# sys-audio

Audio operations in Qubes OS.

## Table of Contents

*   [Description](#description)
*   [Installation](#installation)
*   [Usage](#usage)
    *   [Audio control](#audio-control)
    *   [Client turned off with a device attached](#client-turned-off-with-a-device-attached)
    *   [How to managed audio input/output devices](#how-to-managed-audio-inputoutput-devices)
    *   [How to use advanced audio processing capabilities](#how-to-use-advanced-audio-processing-capabilities)
    *   [How to use Bluetooth](#how-to-use-bluetooth)
        *   [How to make the Bluetooth icon appear in the system tray](#how-to-make-the-bluetooth-icon-appear-in-the-system-tray)
        *   [How to attach the Bluetooth controller to the AudioVM persistently](#how-to-attach-the-bluetooth-controller-to-the-audiovm-persistently)

## Description

Creates the named disposable "disp-sys-audio" qube for providing audio

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kenosen · March 11, 2025, 11:45pm

For those who may come to this later: I wanted to consolidate my BT headset used by sys-audio to sys-usb, following the suggestion I made above. This doesn’t seem to work and renders BT input devices unusable when the BT adapter is assigned to sys-audio.

I may try and spend more time troubleshooting, but the easiest solution would be to dedicate the internal BT adapter to input devices, and a separate external BT adapter for audio.