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I sometimes use Sway. My approach to Bluetooth was always to use bluetoothctl in a terminal. Then I saw there was an Emacs interface to bluetoothctl and I started using that. A system tray applet for bluetooth would be better (by analogy to nm-applet), but I don't know of one that is currently maintained and working.

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Add the following lines to your sway config. It works for me when using Waybar.

exec_always --no-startup-id blueman-applet

exec_always --no-startup-id nm-applet --indicator

Ah, blueman wasn't in my distro's repositories for the longest time, which led me to believe it was unmaintained. Apparently it was incompatible for a while, but that's now been fixed.

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