Bluetooth Mouse refuses to connect in KDE Desktop
I've switched over from GNOME desktop and even in that one the mouse was having trouble. The model is a HP Travel Mouse, wireless, completely Bluetooth. For whatever reason I'm able to connect it in gaming mode but as soon as it goes a few seconds without inactivity I need to shake it to wake it up. This worked in GNOME after some trouble shooting (connecting the 1st switch to bazzite and the 2nd to windows) that seemed to fix it.
This time around I've completely wiped my partition, so no Windows 11 dual boot to test this on. I've however tested it by connecting the 2nd Switch to my iPad and... Doesn't seem to work, on top of that any and all attempts to pair the mouse in desktop mode doesn't seem to work, which is completely different from the GNOME one.
I've tried checking for updates, a few internet tips, but nothing seemed to fix it.
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This is my rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
Digest: sha256:48b7a678cc6cd94614c860b8eac18d84fe76fd3ccd313bf46db952a6d96c90fd
Version: 42.20250809 (2025-08-10T02:09:17Z)
ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
Digest: sha256:48b7a678cc6cd94614c860b8eac18d84fe76fd3ccd313bf46db952a6d96c90fd
Version: 42.20250809 (2025-08-10T02:09:17Z)
I've also run into another problem after trying to trouble shoot it myself and my steam deck can no longer boot into bazzite's game mode
The "fixes" I did didn't change anything drastic I don't think it was mainly using bluetoothctl in the terminal and changing my power plan from balanced to performance
I press the shortcut in the desktop, it logs off but soon appears back in desktop mode, telling me steam is being installed/updated and I'm asked to resign in into my account after its done updating.
Also forgot to add, I'm using a Steam Deck, bazzite kde desktop
Steam Deck LCD 64 GB model, upgraded with a Kingspec 512 GB M.2 2230 PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe SSD.
yeah the bluetooth thing is just a bazzite problem and not exclusive to linux, my mouse can connect to SteamOS and reconnect just fine whenever it goes to sleep