Been using this for years on my Debian 12 install and it’s been very solid. Why it’s on the homepage though is perplexing.
Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
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Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#52I've had an MX Master mouse (the "2" for maybe 8-9 years then the "3" for 2-3 years now) and love it. Great performance, great battery life, fantastic design and feel. On Windows I definitely do not love the 150Mb program to manage it (surely sending a torrent of unnecessary telemetry data back to Logitech. I found Solaar a couple months ago after getting repeatedly frustrated with bluetooth connection issues. It rea…
My one gripe with Logitech mice is that none of their "office" mice support high refresh rate polling.
Also they've been very slow to adopt optical switches compared to other brands, a handful of their high end gaming mice have them, but the vast majority of their range still uses the same old mechanical switches that tend to start erroneously double clicking after a while.
Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#53Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does a mouse need an app, again?
reprogrammable buttons, adjustable dpi, customizeable lights, etc
All of those should be state changes in the mouse.. IE. the software should run to make the settings then exit. There should be no reason for it to keep running.
Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#55Please port to Windows, I don't want 500mb of shitware to change settings on my mouse.
Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#56I tried to get this to work a couple of times and gave up. I was trying to rebind a mouse button (back) to a macro and just gave up after a while. I ended up using the G Hub on a Mac and applying settings to the onboard config. I like the idea of Solaar, but the initial learning curve was more effort than I wanted to put in to rebind a single key.
Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#57Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
reprogrammable buttons, adjustable dpi, customizeable lights, etc
All of those should be state changes in the mouse.. IE. the software should run to make the settings then exit. There should be no reason for it to keep running.
Logitech's best kept secret is they do make a lightweight version of their software for exactly that, it edits the settings saved on the mouse and does absolutely nothing else. It's only available for Windows though.
https://support.logi.com/hc/en-ca/articles/360059641133-Onbo...
Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
some mice can have the config saved onboard, then don't require a driver.
we need qmk for mice
The ploopy mouse has QMK. Layers on a mouse are very useful!
Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
#60I've had an MX Master mouse (the "2" for maybe 8-9 years then the "3" for 2-3 years now) and love it. Great performance, great battery life, fantastic design and feel. On Windows I definitely do not love the 150Mb program to manage it (surely sending a torrent of unnecessary telemetry data back to Logitech. I found Solaar a couple months ago after getting repeatedly frustrated with bluetooth connection issues. It rea…
My one gripe with Logitech mice is that none of their "office" mice support high refresh rate polling.
With the Linux kernel, USB power savings are also annoying on Logitech devices. If you set everything on USB bus to powersave, their mice and keyboards will go to sleep every few seconds unless there's continuous activity.
I have experience with Dell and Apple keyboards on Linux, and they don't suffer from this issue. The problem is not terrible, but requires a special udev rule to exclude them from powersaving, which is annoying.