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Bug 597023 - [FEATURE REQUEST] Support setting the alias of a bt device
[FEATURE REQUEST] Support setting the alias of a bt device
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 575991
Product: gnome-bluetooth
Classification: Core
Component: applet
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-bluetooth-general-maint@gnome.bugs
gnome-bluetooth-general-maint@gnome.bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-01 17:20 UTC by Lennart Poettering
Modified: 2009-10-01 17:27 UTC
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Description Lennart Poettering 2009-10-01 17:20:17 UTC 
I am currently playing around with a couple of devices that have really crappy friendly names. Low-level bluetoothd supports an "alias" feature to rename a bt device, so that the user can pick a better name. Would be nice if there was some way to configure that in gnome-bluez.

An example implementing this is in the bluez git tree:

./test-device alias 00:0D:44:85:66:35 "waldo"
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2009-10-01 17:27:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 575991 ***