I’m using Gnome and whatever it uses under the hood for bluetooth. Restarting the daemon might be worth exploring though, at least to see if behavior changes.

That’s exactly the route that I was going. Although I’m back at work today and noticed that even a usb-connected wired headset has some issues. I have to do some more testing, but the only way I’ve been able to make things work seamlessly is by logging out with my private user entirely while I’m working :/

If you ever have to go back to bash, it supports it as well. In my bashrc:

bind '"\C-p":history-search-backward'

That’s ctrl-p, but I’m sure the up arrow is possible too.

Guix

Ah yeah, I’m in the same situation. My daily driver is arch, but at some point I came across guix and installed it on an old laptop for when I feel like computering in front of the tv or something. Somehow I’ve even gotten yubi keys to be recognized and usable, but I really feel like someone needs to write an intro to the system-level APIs. The official documentation often feels like it assumes a lot more understanding of this than I do, and I haven’t figured out a way to wrap my head around it.

Since it’s not mission critical for me though, it’s been a fun experience!