# Set up Bluetooth toggling via keyboard shortcut

**Category:** [blog](https://bawmedical.co.uk/c/blog/9)
**Created:** 2020-06-09 19:18 UTC
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**URL:** https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/set-up-bluetooth-toggling-via-keyboard-shortcut/163

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## Post #1 by @marcusbaw

Based on this Gist

https://gist.github.com/konchunas/265adbc4974c0559a374f0e7d3cbe17f#file-toggle-dbus-bluetooth-sh

It didn't work on Linux Mint, but this variant did

```bash
#!/bin/sh

IS_BLUETOOTH_ON=$(dbus-send --system --dest=org.bluez --print-reply /org/bluez/hci0 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:org.bluez.Adapter1 string:Powered )

case $IS_BLUETOOTH_ON in 
  *false*)
    rfkill unblock 0
    ;;
  *true*)
    rfkill block 0
    ;;
esac

exit 0
```

I saved this to a file (in my case in  `~/code/scripts/bluetooth-toggle.sh` ) and made it executable with  `chmod +x ~/code/scripts/bluetooth-toggle.sh` . Then I assigned this to run via a keyboard shortcut using the GUI keyboard management tool

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**Canonical:** https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/set-up-bluetooth-toggling-via-keyboard-shortcut/163
**Original content:** https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/set-up-bluetooth-toggling-via-keyboard-shortcut/163