14 DAY TRIAL // GNOME developer Bastien Nocera talks in his latest blog post about the enhancements he managed to implement in the past few weeks to the Bluetooth stack of the Fedora Linux operating system.
The patches submitted by the developer to the Bluetooth packages in the latest Fedora Linux release promise to bring improvements to the way PlayStation 3 DualShock controllers are set up in the environment if you're using the GNOME desktop environment.
Until now, to set up a DualShock 3 controller, users had to plug it in via USB, then disconnect it, and then press the "P" button on the joypad, which would have popped-up a dialog to confirm the Bluetooth connection. But this method had some quirks though.
"If you were trying to just charge the joypad, then it would forget its original "console" and you would need to plug it in again," explains Bastien Nocera. "If you didn't have the Bluetooth panel opened when trying to use it wirelessly, then it just wouldn't have worked."
New, simplified method, and DualShock 4 controller support
With Bastien Nocera's patches, there's now easier than ever to set up a DualShock controller. Just open the Bluetooth panel in GNOME Settings, plug in the controller via USB, and click the "Allow" to confirm the Bluetooth connection.
Of course, if you just want to charge the controller from your computer, just ignore the Bluetooth connection message. And, the good news is that with this method you can now connect a Sony PlayStation 4 DualShock 4 controller, too.
The developer also talked about the infamous BlueBorne vulnerability that puts billions of Bluetooth devices at risk by suggesting a new security method that locks the program down, which could be integrated into the next Fedora release, Fedora 27.
