Free bluetooth 2.0 headset software for linux

GNOME Bluetooth are tools for controlling and communicating with Bluetooth devices.

GNOME Bluetooth includes a GNOME platform library and associated tools for interfacing with and managing Bluetooth devices. Includes OBEX file transfer utilities and a prototype device manager.

GNOME Bluetooth was originally developed by Edd Dumbill, and its primary maintainer is now Bastien Nocera.

The software is free, licensed under the GPL.

The software is still in beta development right now. This means that there are bugs. Be careful!

Clearlooks is a GTK+ 2.x engine written in C that transforms your GNOME/XFCE desktop into a modern looking environment. Clearlooks 2 is fast and easy on the eyes.

Clearlooks is an attractive gtk engine with a focus on usability.

Clearlooks will transform your GNOME desktop into an attractive looking and usable environment.

xremote is a tool for grabbing mouse and keyboard of another display.

It creates a form of remote control of other machines. All mouse- and keyboard-actions on the local machine are forwarded to the remote display.

Installation

xremote should be easy to compile and install if you are using the tar.gz. Just issue the following commands to configure, compile and install it:

# ./configure
# make
# make install

BlueProximity project helps you add a little more security to your desktop. It does so by detecting one of your bluetooth devices, most likely your mobile phone, and keeping track of its distance. If you move away from your computer and the distance is above a certain level (no measurement in meters is possible) for a given time, it automatically locks your desktop (or starts any other shell command you want).

Once away your computer awaits its master back - if you are nearer than a given level for a set time your computer unlocks magically without any interaction (or starts any other shell command you want).

USB Headset Buttonss purpose is to enable the Volume up and Down Buttons on my Logitech USB 30 Headset.

USB Headsets are very useful for VoIP applications like SIP Networks or Skype. On my headset I have volume buttons which need extra care to be taken of. This Application does it.

LightBlue is a cross-platform Python Bluetooth API. It is available for Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and Nokias Python for Series 60 platform for mobile phones.
Main features:
- Device and service discovery (with and without end-user GUIs)
- Standard socket interface for RFCOMM sockets
- Sending and receiving files over OBEX
- Advertising of RFCOMM and OBEX services
- Local device information
Version restrictions:
- findservices() and selectservice() on Python For Series 60 returns only RFCOMM and OBEX services
- Avoid threading on Mac OS X, as the underlying IOBluetooth and IOBluetoothUI frameworks are not thread-safe
- No cross-platform set of socket options
- Sockets (the native PyS60 API sockets are used, so their restrictions are inherited - but I havent used PyS60 1.3.8 yet so Im not sure about that)
- sockets on Python For Series 60 cannot be created in one thread and used in another
- fileno() raises NotImplementedError on Mac OS X and Python For Series 60
- timeouts not supported on Python For Series 60: settimeout() raises NotImplementedError, gettimeout() returns None
- non-blocking mode on PyS60 works for send() and recv but not accept() or connect()
- No socket options on Mac OS X, and flags arguments (e.g. for recv) have no effect
- socket security cannot be set (PyS60 implementation sets this to AUTH by default)
- Error codes for exceptions are platform-independent. In particular, the Mac OS X implementation can return IOReturn error values from the IOKit framework, and OBEXError codes from < IOBluetooth/OBEX.h > for OBEX operations.
Enhancements:
- The PyS60 3rd Edition binaries have (really) been fixed, and gethostaddr() and gethostclass() should also be fixed for PyS60 2nd Edition FP2 and FP3.
- Since its getting more difficult to build for PyS60 1st Edition, this build has been dropped for this version -- which isnt an issue for this release since there are no new features -- but there wont be any further builds for this edition. If you need to compile LightBlue for 1st Edition, feel free to email me with any issues.
- Fixed functions on Mac OS X build that wait (e.g. finddevices(), recv() for sockets) so that they dont busy-wait and hog the CPU.

Blues55 transforms a Siemens S55 cell-phone into a remote control for your computer.

Siemens phones dont have the same functionality as Sony Ericsson phones, though. Its for instance not possible to send userface elements onto the phone. Blues55 just sniffs every key-press on the phone. Its therefore best to go into key-lock state of the phone before launching Blues55.

Usage:

Establish a serial bluetooth-connection with the phone (usually sudo rfcomm bind 0 00:11:22:33:44:55)
Go into the keylock-state of the phone.
Launch Blues55: ./blues55 -k (-k for keyboard control; -m for mouse).