Are there camera and bluetooth applications in Xfce?

chipong · 2012-01-30 08:58:56

Xfce is fit for netbook, camera and bluetooth are often present in netbooks.
Shall we use Xfce without using netbook's camera and bluetooth?

angstrom · 2012-01-30 10:16:28

There is blueman as GTK bluetooth manager.

chipong · 2012-02-03 12:45:06

Blueman is too inactive in debian.

angstrom · 2012-02-03 12:57:56

It's true that is the also the case in OpenSuse : the package simply doesn't exist ...
The solution left is to compile from source. I did it my self and is not too much work (no weird patch to apply), except that you have to find all the -devel package name required as it may differ from what ./configure give you.

chipong · 2012-02-04 08:21:01

It sounds too hard.

chipong · 2012-02-05 07:51:19

No common user but developer here?

Camera and bluetooth are "too important" for common user.

angstrom · 2012-02-05 11:17:29

I thunk more that it's because bluetooth is not much common in Linux. It's almost that it's forgotten. There is very few development.

lifeinthegrey · 2012-02-05 15:41:32

In regards to camera ... I have this on my netbook (Acer AspireOne A532h), and the camera works out of the box. It sounds like a driver issue if yours doesn't, so you may want to investigate it for your specific netbook.

In regards to bluetooth, I use Bluez and it works just fine, and based on the dependencies listed here, it doesn't really pull in any GNOME crap.

I can't say for sure if Bluez will work for you, because thats a hardware and distro-based question. Just wanted to point out that although there aren't any xfce-specific applications for camera or bluetooth, there are extra packages you can install that will solve your problems.

chipong · 2012-02-07 07:37:47

lifeinthegrey wrote:

it doesn't really pull in any GNOME crap.

Very good.

chipong · 2012-02-07 07:44:34

lifeinthegrey wrote:

Just wanted to point out that although there aren't any xfce-specific applications for camera or bluetooth, there are extra packages you can install that will solve your problems.

We should always have hopes in our hearts.

chipong · 2012-02-19 04:02:20

No more suggests?

paolo321 · 2012-02-20 16:02:48

I use blueman on xubuntu oneiric, it works correctly.

Tried cheese for camera support (some gnome deps, but not much), it worked... But I do not use it, just checked that camera was working :-)

chipong · 2012-03-15 04:19:42

I think the best way of solving the problem is to forget bluetooth and camera.

gxagar · 2012-03-17 05:05:58

My fave is Camorama. Don't use Bluetooth so no pref there.

lifeinthegrey · 2012-03-17 09:08:42

chipong wrote:

I think the best way of solving the problem is to forget bluetooth and camera.

Did you seriously just answer your own thread question with one of disregard?

...

Interesting.

chipong · 2012-03-28 13:00:07

No perfect or "local" solutions in Xfce.And not necessary somewhat,I think seriously.

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