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[#]: subject: "An Interesting Bluetooth App for Linux Just Appeared!"
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[#]: via: "https://news.itsfoss.com/bluetooth-app-linux-overskride/"
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[#]: author: "Sourav Rudra https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/"
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[#]: collector: "lujun9972/lctt-scripts-1693450080"
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An Interesting Bluetooth App for Linux Just Appeared!
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All things Bluetooth with this brand new app!
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A new app for Linux has shown up that could be a one-stop app for all your Bluetooth needs.
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Called ' **Overskride** ', it is **an open-source app** making an appearance with its first release. Even though it is in a work-in-progress state, it offers some decent functionality.
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Allow me to take you through it.
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### Overskride: What to Expect?
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Overskride will appeal to the Rust-heads out there, as it is **primarily written in the Rust programming language** with **a GTK4/libadwaita flavor** to it.
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According to the developer, it is meant to be **a straightforward Bluetooth and Obex client** _(planned for future)_ that works irrespective of the desktop environment or window manager being used.
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Some key features include:
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* **Trust/Block devices.**
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* **Ability to send/receive files.**
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* **Set connection timeout periods.**
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* **Support for configuring the adapter.**
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Looking at the screenshot above, you have got about every essential option to customize the Bluetooth device, and the connection, including the adapter name.
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Of course, considering this is the first release of the app ever, one should not set high expectations. So, there would be room for improvements.
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For now, here's **a little sneak peek of Overskride** to check what it offers.
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I set it up using the provided Flatpak package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with GNOME 42.9. It didn't seem to have any issues with running on this setup.
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Overskride was able to detect my smartphone, with various options to configure it.
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You can add the device to the trusted list or block list, rename it, and send a file as well.
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I gave the **file transfer feature** a try, but before I could do that, I had to allow access to user files using [Flatseal][4] so that it could read the files on my system.
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The transfer began after I accepted the file transfer on my phone. The speeds were okay, and the file did get there in one piece, without any issues.
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I must say, for its first-ever release, the developer has presented us with a useful utility. I am excited to see what kind of improvements its future releases will offer.
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The developer [was asked][7] by a Reddit user if there are any plans to **support for showing the battery percentage of wireless headphones.** In response to that, the dev mentioned that it is tricky to do so, as every device follows a different specification, which makes such a goal harder to achieve.
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**Suggested Read** 📖
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### 📥 Get Overskride
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For now, Overskride is only available via its [GitHub repo][9] as a Flatpak package. Or, you can compile it from source.
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[Overskride (GitHub)][10]
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I hope the developer publishes it on [Flathub][11] once it gets to a stable release to make it accessible for users.
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via: https://news.itsfoss.com/bluetooth-app-linux-overskride/
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作者：[Sourav Rudra][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/10/Overskride_1.png
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[2]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/04/Follow-us-on-Google-News.png
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[3]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/10/Overskride_2.png
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[4]: https://itsfoss.com/flatseal/
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[5]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/10/Overskride_3.png
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[6]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/10/Overskride_4.png
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[7]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/17a5m99/full_release_of_my_bluetooth_app_d/k5b3ybg/
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[8]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/08/android-chrome-192x192.png
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[9]: https://github.com/kaii-lb/overskride
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[10]: https://github.com/kaii-lb/overskride/releases/
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[11]: https://flathub.org/en
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