Sony's PlayStation 4 DualShock Controller Now Supported in Fedora Linux, GNOME | Linux Today

Sony’s PlayStation 4 DualShock Controller Now Supported in Fedora Linux, GNOME

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Marius Nestor
Sep 20, 2017

The patches submitted by the developer to the Bluetooth packages in the latest Fedora Linux release promise to bring improvements to the way PlayStation 3 DualShock controllers are set up in the environment if you’re using the GNOME desktop environment. Until now, to set up a DualShock 3 controller, users had to plug it in via USB, then disconnect it, and then press the “P” button on the joypad, which would have popped-up a dialog to confirm the Bluetooth connection. But this method had some quirks though.

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Marius Nestor

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