How do I disable bluetooth startup (by default, with every boot) in 17.04?

Question

I was just wondering how to disable bluetooth startup by default in 17.04. I would like to be able to boot, and not have to turn off bluetooth every time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Solution

If I'm not mistaken you can turn it off in the systemsettings and it will stay offline?

If this doesn't work you can disable the service itself.

sudo systemctl disable bluetooth.service && sudo systemctl stop bluetooth.service

If you want to activate it again.

sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service && sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service

The enable and disable is used so during the next startup it is either started or not.

Comments

[Robert Sederholm]

Not really the answer.... I want to know how to get bluetooth to not come on at startup, but be readily AVAILABLE to use. I don't want to disable the bluetooth completely then have to re-enable it when I use bluetooth. I just don't want the unnecessary bluetooth service running while I'm not using it. I'll never remember, if I need bluetooth, that I need to run some cmd bs to get it working again.

[Ziazis]

Huh? You don't want to disable it so use just the stop/start command. I did write the enable/disable is for if you don't want it to be run during start up. Read it completly before answering in such vulgar language.

[Robert Sederholm]

Did I need to reboot for this to take effect? I'll accept the answer if so. I didn't reboot or log out, so maybe it was my bad. I'm on Ubuntu GNOME now, and I don't have the same problem so I can't check.....

[Ziazis]

The stop/start is during runtime. So no usually you never have to reboot a linux computer to make changes have effect, except if you want to change the kernel maybe.

[Robert Sederholm]

Okay well this answer never worked for me, sorry. Idk what it was about my system but in this specific case, that wasn't the answer for whatever reason.

[Adrian Keister]

The OP would like the Blueman to stay in the systray, but the system as a whole to boot up essentially with the right-click option "Turn Bluetooth Off" already done. The systemctl options disable Blueman altogether, making it more difficult to use Bluetooth.