How to disable bluetooth autostart upon boot

[axxer]

ok heres a workaround i got for disabling bluetooth upon boot..
first of all, i'm using linuxmint 9 lxde on my acer 2920 laptop which had a dedicated button to turn on/off bluetooth.. the problem is, bluetooth on my laptop is always on whenever i boot, regarding its state on session before. its so annoying to press that dedicated button to turn bluetooth off upon boot while i rarely use bluetooth. i've tried all possible way like disable bluetooth daemon, blacklist bluetooth module etc but with no luck,its still on whever i boot.
heres a bug report regarding this problem on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/306739

ok lets go, first remove gnome bluetooth applet:

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sudo apt-get remove gnome-bluetooth

it will also prompt to remove gnome-user-share(we dont need this any more), so just continue.

next, install another bluetooth manager called blueman:

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sudo apt-get install blueman

next, install bootup manager:

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sudo apt-get install bum

open bootup manager:

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sudo bum

or find it on menu, in my menu its located in Preferences>BootUp Manager.

find bluetooth service and disable it(untick on box beside it) and click Apply.

boot your machine and se how it works

note: on my machine, bluetooth still start on boot but it will close automatically 2-3 seconds later, so no more pressing dedicated button to turn off bluetooth for me and i can turn it on again manually by pressing bluetooth dedicated button whenever i want to use it. file transfer works just fine using blueman(it will shows as bluetooth icon on tray icon similar to gnome-bluetooth that we remove earlier).
i think gnome-bluetooth just force bluetooth module to load upon boot, i've already test it with bootup manager(disable bluetooth module in bootup manager without unistalling gnome-bluetooth) and bluetooth still on when i boot, but when combining bootup manager with blueman, Whalla!! my problem solved

[scratch178]

works great

thx

[jarek_bolo]

I also confirm this solution.
My bluetooth device has been successfully disabled.

My laptop is Asus U30JC (i5 520M).

Greetings.
Jarek

Edit:

After some test I think that we don't have to turn off any services with boot-up menager.
I think that Blueman just remembers last state and when you restart your computer sets itself to this last state.

[sgosnell]

Before going to all this trouble, did you open System/Preferences/Startup Applications, and uncheck the box for Bluetooth Manager? This will prevent the bluetooth manager from being loaded at boot, and bluetooth should be disabled. There should be no need for removing it and installing something else.

[jarek_bolo]

Before going to all this trouble, did you open System/Preferences/Startup Applications, and uncheck the box for Bluetooth Manager? This will prevent the bluetooth manager from being loaded at boot, and bluetooth should be disabled. There should be no need for removing it and installing something else.

Doing so You won't be able to turn bluetooth on when needed without rebooting your machine.

I wanted to have bluetooth recognized and working but just turned off by software on default.
It seems that gnome-bluetooth doesn't remember it's last status. Blueman does it.

[sgosnell]

You don't have to reboot to turn on bluetooth, you just have to run the bluetooth manager. That can be done from a desktop file or by "bluetooth-applet" from a terminal.

[iskada]

thanks, just adjust in 'System' menu, it works