Gnome Bluetooth-applet 10.2 bug workaround

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If your Bluetooth seems otherwise working but external devices can't discover your PC you may be suffering from a glitch in the installation. If in the Bluetooth properties panel (accessed by a right click on the tray icon) the Mode of operation section is greyed out you can get at it from the command prompt.

Open a terminal and switch to root. Issue the following two commands:

> apitest SetMode discoverable
> apitest SetDiscoverableTimeout 0

This should reset the preferences so you can adjust them yourself.