Cannot get bluetooth to automatically turn on on startup

Asked by Dante Mario Bonafiglia

I have a bluetooth mouse that was automatically connecting to my bluetooth card on Ubuntu every time I turned on my laptop. After some manual updates this doesn't happen anymore so I have to use the trackpad to enable bluetooth manually every time I restart my laptop.

I tried to edit the main.conf file (sudo vim /etc/bluetooth/main.conf) but AutoEnable is already True, here it is:

[Policy]

# The ReconnectUUIDs defines the set of remote services that should try
# to be reconnected to in case of a link loss (link supervision
# timeout). The policy plugin should contain a sane set of values by
# default, but this list can be overridden here. By setting the list to
# empty the reconnection feature gets disabled.
#ReconnectUUIDs=00001112-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb, 0000111f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb, 0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb

# ReconnectAttempts define the number of attempts to reconnect after a link
# lost. Setting the value to 0 disables reconnecting feature.
#ReconnectAttempts=7

# ReconnectIntervals define the set of intervals in seconds to use in between
# attempts.
# If the number of attempts defined in ReconnectAttempts is bigger than the
# set of intervals the last interval is repeated until the last attempt.
#ReconnectIntervals=1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64

# AutoEnable defines option to enable all controllers when they are found.
# This includes adapters present on start as well as adapters that are plugged
# in later on. Defaults to 'false'.
AutoEnable=true

It's really annoying and I already spent many hours trying to fix it. Please help :(

Ubuntu 20.04

Thanks!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What steps do you take to enable it?
Are they terminal commands?

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Dante Mario Bonafiglia (mariolog) said (last edit ):
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Dante Mario Bonafiglia (mariolog) said :
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Now I use the top right menu. I turn it on the same way I would turn WiFi on. But I would like to have it enabled automatically, like it was before, from the lock-screen when I restart or turn my laptop on.

What "are they terminal commands"? I don't understand :( From "[Policy]" to "AutoEnable=True" is the content of the file "main.conf". Many solutions on the internet pointed at modifying this file by switching AutoEnable to True, but it's already True.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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