The stock software will not run in Wine. I would suggest picking hardware that's supported by Piper.
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Oh, and the UI even looks better than the totally overloaded official Logitech UI. Thanks!
There is also Solaar, which has tray battery status support and keyboard support.
I use both, as both have features the other doesn't.
Razer mice and keyboards can be managed with openrazer under Linux. I still use deathadders on a few Linux machines ( and one Windows games PC ) but I've ditched my razer keyboards for keychron which don't really need any software. You can configure the RGB components of them all with openrgb if you want in Linux and Windows.
That looks awesome, thanks!
I've been using Linux for almost 25 years and I've never once considered mouse or keyboard incompatibility, and that's including ADB, PS/2 and DB9 devices, let alone USB.
As far as I know, you can intercept any signal from any such HID device and map it to whatever action you want to achieve at whatever level you need it.
I'm happy to be wrong, but I'd be surprised.
A lot of newer big "gamer" brand peripherals are coming bundled with proprietary software you gotta run to get full functionality.
A friend of mine recently tried Linux and had his scroll wheel not work because it was tired to the software on Windows for some stupid reason...
I saw this trend starting nearly a decade ago when Razers software bricked my Win7 PC by booting before the login screen, I've avoided any devices with mandatory software since, but seems the issue has only grown lately.
While generally true, I believe there’s a lot of weird custom wireless communication out there. Plenty of mice and keyboards refuse to communicate over a standard HID protocol which leads many to not work for enterprise type devices / appliances. Anything with an HID / Console port (like some KVMs) for management will just not respond properly to key presses even if the downstream usb host can detect presses properly. This is extremely nuanced and not at all the same as something like Logitech G-Hub only being windows so customizing the buttons / RGB on the M/K is a questionable adventure for normal users.
Second for QMK. Flash any macro directly into the firmware, no proprietary software needed.
Nice, thanks!
I prefer logiops to piper because it lets you chord, e.g. hold back button and swipe right I have configured to switch activites in kde, so you get five times the bang for your buttons (static, swipe up, down, left, right). You can then use the key combos it generates in games.
I have a Keychron K3 Pro keyboard that can be programmed with VIA and I'm more than happy with it.
My mouse is a VAXEE Outset Wireless. This doesn't need any software to change DPI / polling rate etc. All of it can be done by pressing buttons on the underside of the mouse. It works very reliably.
Don't use proprietary software for something so simple as mouse and keyboard macros and variable DPI. Use Piper or something.
@ackthxbye Maybe a bit further than you wanna go, but I can confirm that a keyboard running kmk works perfectly fine with games under wine. If you have a keyboard/mouse that's able to be installed with CircuitPython, you'll have the ability to assign more macros than you can count.
I use a littel workaround on my Bazzite gaming rig. G-Hub runs on a Win10 VM, I just re-direct the USB-ports zu the VM to save the config from G-Hub on the device. They will lose the config from time to time, not sure why.
It's third party and CLI only, but rivalcfg supports a decent variety of Steel Series mouses / mice / meece / mousen.
my logitech mouse is configurable in piper (no automatic profiles unfortunately) and my endorfy keyboard requires no installable software as all lighting effects are configured with fn keys