Disable Bluetooth by default to prevent BlueZ connection popup on Linux startup#322212
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Electron initiates a connection to BlueZ (Linux Bluetooth daemon) on startup, causing a Bluetooth permission popup for users who don't even use Bluetooth. Disable Bluetooth by default using Chromium's --disable-bluetooth switch. Users who need Web Bluetooth can opt-in with --enable-bluetooth CLI flag. Fixes microsoft#134461
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the Electron main entrypoint (src/main.ts) to prevent VS Code from triggering a BlueZ (Linux Bluetooth daemon) connection attempt during startup by appending Chromium’s --disable-bluetooth switch early in initialization, with an opt-in escape hatch.
Changes:
- Append
--disable-bluetoothduring early command-line switch configuration to avoid BlueZ activation on startup. - Provide an opt-in path via
--enable-bluetooth(so the disable switch is not appended).
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| if (!app.commandLine.hasSwitch('enable-bluetooth')) { | ||
| app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-bluetooth'); | ||
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Description
On Linux, VS Code requests Bluetooth access on startup because Electron initiates a connection to BlueZ (Linux Bluetooth daemon) early in the startup process. This causes a distracting system permission popup for users who don't even use Bluetooth.
Fix
Add
--disable-bluetoothChromium switch early in the startup sequence to prevent Electron from connecting to BlueZ.Users who need Web Bluetooth functionality can opt in by passing
--enable-bluetoothCLI flag.Changes
src/main.ts: Addeddisable-bluetoothswitch beforeargvConfigreturn, with--enable-bluetoothopt-inRelated
Fixes #134461