[TriLUG] bluetooth mouse goes unconcious if you walk away

[Reed, Reginald]

My assumption is that this is highly mouse dependent.  The bulk of my Bluetooth mouse experience has been with OS X and a Dell Bluetooth travel mouse.  The mouse does go to sleep when not in use for some period of time, but moving the mouse wakes it up and OS X happily chugs along.

*side note* I've never had consistent luck with Bluetooth on windows, the combination of drivers/Bluetooth stacks has never worked well, even on Thinkpads with factory installed hardware.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Joseph Mack NA3T
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:39 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] bluetooth mouse goes unconcious if you walk away
> 
> As a result of yesterday's bt w/s I now have bt mouse on my
> desktop.
> 
> When you walk away, the mouse disconnects eventually (on
> reading forums, this is called "parking"). Shaking the mouse
> doesn't unlock the screen. You have to use a real mouse to
> activate the screen and then you have to search for the
> mouse with
> 
> hidd -s
> 
> Just pressing the pairing button on the mouse doesn't do it.
> 
> Looking with google, I find lots of people who have had
> unparking work previously, but it stopped for no reason they
> could think of, or it stopped when they upgraded their
> distro. No-one has solutions (that I could find).
> 
> My first question is then
> 
> "is it even mathematically possible for a parked mouse to
> reconnect without intervention by the desktop?"
> 
> Presumably if this is possible, then windows will be doing
> it, but I haven't looked.
> 
> If this is possible, does anyone know what to do?
> 
> Thanks
> Joe
> 
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