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Pairing an Apple Bluetooth keyboard with Fedora 20
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For some reason, this didn't work with the standard GUI bluetooth tools, so I did the following

  1. Run the command-line bluetoothctl tool
  2. type "agent on"
  3. type "scan on"
  4. press the button on your keyboard, the light should flash if it's not paired with anything else
  5. type "devices" (this shows the list of devices)
  6. type "trust xxxx" where xxxx is the keyboard MAC
  7. type "connect xxxx" where xxxx is the keyboard MAC
  8. type "pair xxxx" where xxxx is the keyboard MAC
  9. it should give you a code, type the code on the bluetooth keyboard's numbers, then press enter (on the bluetooth keyboard)
  10. hopefully you should be paired now

Note: I wrote this from memory, and I'm not sure if the trust/connect steps are necessary.

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_Keyboard#Pairing_process

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