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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

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Post by KennyBlanken »

pxc wrote: post #67

Is there anything like this on Windows? Logitech mice are mostly nice, but one of their major flaws is that their macro capability is not onboard but requires some kind of supplemental software like this, so even just binding a single button to multiple keystrokes as a chord is not possible without G-Hub. Linux has stuff like Solaar and Piper/libratbagd, which is great. For macOS, it looks like SteerMouse does quite…

Their major flaw is that they purposefully use shitty switches that fail, sometimes within months. This is true even with their absurdly overpriced gaming mice.

I have never had a mouse whose buttons failed until I bought a logitech. Every person I know raves about them until you ask them how many they've had to buy.

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by jwrallie »

rez9x wrote: post #56

I 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.

If the button already has a function (like back) assigned to it, I think the input-remapper[0] software would work. That is what I use with my deathadder.

[0] https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by kdmtctl »

thombles wrote: post #88
kdmtctl wrote: post #86

I'd love to see this ported to Mac. Just discovered the bloody AI prompt builder enabled by default in my mouse driver today. After patiently declining input recording permission for months. Managed to get rid of the most of bloatware using their corporate "Offline" version which supposedly doesn't phone home and doesn't ask for extra permissions. YMMV. https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/11570501236119-Lo...

> AI prompt builder enabled by default in my mouse driver That's so wild I had to go and look up what that could possibly mean. What a world we live in. https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-ai-prompt-build...

I didn’t even check what it could be. I just got the rainbow cursor suddenly on boot, and the process name was enough to instantly uninstall the driver and search for a replacement.

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by resoluteteeth »

throwaway314155 wrote: post #90
bayindirh wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never had Bluetooth connection issues with my Logitech hardware, but I wanted mine to work without an OS (i.e. with a Bolt receiver). Solaar handled the pairing in 30 seconds flat, and I can't be happier. The only thing is, since Bolt doesn't look like proper BT to the OS, battery levels can only be monitored from Solaar itself.

What's a Bolt receiver?

Bolt is logitech's newer wireless protocol (with devices using a dongle rather than bluetooth) that's supposed to be more secure than the older one.

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by nine_k »

throwaway314155 wrote: post #90
bayindirh wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never had Bluetooth connection issues with my Logitech hardware, but I wanted mine to work without an OS (i.e. with a Bolt receiver). Solaar handled the pairing in 30 seconds flat, and I can't be happier. The only thing is, since Bolt doesn't look like proper BT to the OS, battery levels can only be monitored from Solaar itself.

What's a Bolt receiver?

A type of USB wireless receiver: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/logi-bolt-usb-r...

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by newsclues »

myself248 wrote: post #25
hnuser123456 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Logitech's might be a large download, but their Windows software still seems far more optimized than Corsair's. After a few days of uptime, Corsair's processes would have nearly an hour of CPU time. Logitech's would have a couple minutes at most. I replaced all my Corsair equipment with Logitech or others after seeing that.

Why does a mouse need an app, again?

Exactly, the OS should have the functionality and UI.

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by shiroiushi »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #19
LeoPanthera wrote: post #7

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> surely sending a torrent of unnecessary telemetry data back to Logitech To give Logitech some credit, there's an off switch for "diagnostic data" right there in the settings.

If they want more credit, they should make it an on switch

For even more credit, they should leave all the extra telemetry and other crap out of the download, so it's only a megabyte or so, instead of 150MB, and let people opt-in to downloading that junk.

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by leeoniya »

im currently struggling to pair MX mice (anywhere S2 and S3) and keyboard via bluetooth in endeavourOS.

works okay with intel ax-210 chipaet/driver on one machine but on another machine i can only get both to pair to a bluetooth 4 (le) dongle but not bluetooth 5+ chipset (realtek or intel 9560). not sure if bluez bug or btusb driver or smth :(

any tips?

Re: Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices

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Post by lsaferite »

bayindirh wrote: post #73
myself248 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does a mouse need an app, again?

To be able to program all the configurable buttons, and upload the macros and settings to the profiles present on the mouse itself, so you can use all the features of your mouse, tailored to you, even if you don’t have the software on the target device you’re using your mouse. Yes, Logitech’s high end mice store settings themselves. The app is just a programming interface. It sometimes does per program profile switch…

And yet, my keyboard can do almost (no per-program switching) all of the same FROM A WEB PAGE. WebHID should be all that's needed for advanced input devices. If you want some sort of per-program profile switching, sure, release a dedicated app that handles sending a special HID command sequence to trigger a profile switch.
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