GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 794467
Switching WiFi and Bluetooth off, automatically enables Airplane mode
Last modified: 2018-03-19 21:50:43 UTC
Problem: switching WiFi and Bluetooth off, automatically enables Airplane mode, thereby requiring the user to disable Airplane mode before re-enabling WiFi or Bluetooth connections. This doesn't make sense, because the user never explicitly enabled Airplane mode. Expected behaviour: Airplane mode should only be enabled when the user explicitly does so. To reproduce: 1. Turn off WiFi connections and Bluetooth connections. 2. Attempt to enable WiFi or Bluetooth.
> To reproduce: > 1. Turn off WiFi connections and Bluetooth connections. > 2. Attempt to enable WiFi or Bluetooth. Can you be specific about how you do these things exactly? Thanks.
My bad, through the gnome-shell top-right menu.
Let me rephrase that, because the description, I now see, is not very accurate in that turning on WiFi or Bluetooth directly (through the gnome-shell top-right menu) is not obstructed. However, if the user attempts to select a network (through the gnome-shell top-right menu), they will be requested to turn off Airplane mode first. TL;DR: to reproduce (through the gnome-shell top-right menu): 1. Turn off Bluetooth and WiFi in whatever order you prefer. *Airplane mode becomes activated automatically at this point* 2. Then go again into the menu, and in WiFi, select "Select Network" *A dialog appears, wherein the user is asked to turn off Airplane mode first*
your issue seems like a gnome-shell issue. gnome-shells issue tracker migrated to gitlab, could you please open the issue there? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues thanks
Alright, issue reported. I link it below for cross-reference. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/131
Ok, I am closing this (at least for now). Please re-open if need be. Thanks!!
As per comments on the bug in gitlab, this bug is actually a duplicate. Marking as such. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 761051 ***