Why I have two bluetooth icons on task bar after upgrade?

[prado]

Two icons for Bluetooth both different design after doing upgrade before upgrade only one.
Actually neither one worked after upgrade but managed to get one working. Still would like to get rid of the other Bluetooth icon. How would I do that? The one that says Bluetooth enabled.

Is this normal after a upgrade? Thanks in advance.

uname -r
6.9.7-amd64

cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Parrot Security 6.2 (lorikeet)”
NAME=“Parrot Security”
VERSION_ID=“6.2”
VERSION=“6.2 (lorikeet)”
VERSION_CODENAME=lory
ID=debian

[Fred_Sheehan (Fred)]

Parrot uses the Mate desktop by default, so the simplest thing to try first, is simply resetting the Mate panels from a terminal, then rebooting

killall mate-panel
mate-panel --reset

If that doesn’t solve it, the config for the panels should be in;

/usr/share/mate-panel/layouts

They are only text files and are pretty straightforward, have a look and see what is in the layout.

[prado]

How do I do that for KDE?

$echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
KDE

[Fred_Sheehan (Fred)]

Have a read here under system tray;

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop/panel.html#panel-system-tray

[prado]

I checked in system settings I can’t find a system tray like the one for task bar in the link you provided.
KDE 5.27.5
framework 5.103.0
QT version 5.15.8

[Fred_Sheehan (Fred)]

Then you need to read things better instead of assuming it was in settings menu, it says in the Link

System Tray

Another default panel item is the System Tray, which is used by traditional applications and widgets as a dock. **Right clicking on the System Tray allows you to open the settings dialog, where you can set entries to display and their visibility.**

[prado]

In KDE System Tray I can see blueman and Bluetooth, which one should I get rid of. I recall the Bluetooth connected with my bluetooth speakers device just fine but blueman did not. I had no say in which one between the two icons should connect to the device - Bluetooth prevailed. Or should I just leave it as it is - with two icons for bluetooth devices to connect?

System tray (status and notification area) is located at the bottom far right of KDE panel,next to the time, click the arrow up icon button, and there in status and notifications next to the pin icon is the icon for system tray settings.

[Fred_Sheehan (Fred)]

Just hide one;
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210844

[prado]

Should I begin with this command?
$cp /etc/xdg/autostart/blueman.desktop ~/.config/autostart/blueman.desktop

/etc/xdg/autostart/ is system-wide and
/.config/autostart is user-specific

A standard way to disable the system-wide default like /etc/xdg/autostart/blueman.desktop is to place a user-specific file like ~/.config/autostart/blueman.desktop that overrides it then disable by adding Hidden=true or the other option is NotShowIn=KDE

[prado]