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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 happymellon »

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?

To pair the mouse with the Universal Receiver/Bolt dongle rather than Bluetooth, and then to expose the other APIs such as battery levels.

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

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Post by aorth »

Thanks! This is timely. I just spent an hour of my working morning fiddling with my Ergo K860 keyboard after changing it from Bluetooth to Unifying receiver. Having to find the secret reset key sequence, swapping ports, restarting everything, argh!

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

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Post by dkmar »

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...

Just switched from logi options to Steer Mouse myself.

You can map the buttons and add chords. The only thing it might lack is being able to use mouse movement as a trigger (eg hold the back button and move left to change spaces). Still looking for it

https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

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

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Post by kergonath »

baby_souffle wrote: post #124
bb88 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with using the UI the OS provides?

Not cross platform, difficult to theme or style to Logitech brand guidelines?

To be honest I would be more inclined to install their driver if it did not include ugly Logitech branding and respected a bit more the OS it runs on. I don’t care about cross platform UI in an application for mouse settings, it’s simply not my problem. It has 1 window, FFS. How hard is it to use native toolkits?

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

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Post by shim__ »

akira2501 wrote: post #114
throwaway314155 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's a Bolt receiver?

Bluetooth Low Energy with some Logitech sauce added into it. Apparently encrypted and marketed for use in contexts where FIPS level security would be required.

It's bluetooth 5 with more tx power as far as I understand

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

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Post by kergonath »

phatskat wrote: post #145
bb88 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do the users care about that? Or just the management? And mouse drivers aren't typically cross platform anyway, right?

Users: maybe, but probably not many of them. Management absolutely cares, they have a whole design guidebook why wouldn’t they follow it?? And the drivers likely aren’t cross-platform in the sense of “the windows DLL is just dead code on a Mac”, but the UI of the software can be the same across platforms. The executable is likely a tiny bit of platform-specific launcher code and then cross-platform electron fun.

Because why wouldn’t we embed the whole Chromium runtime to show the user a couple of checkboxes?

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

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Post by kergonath »

dkmar wrote: post #154
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...

Just switched from logi options to Steer Mouse myself. You can map the buttons and add chords. The only thing it might lack is being able to use mouse movement as a trigger (eg hold the back button and move left to change spaces). Still looking for it https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

SteerMouse is fantastic. I’ve been using it for about 20 years now.

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

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Post by bbutkovic »

I have been using this for my ancient MX Master 2s for quite some time now.

I use it mostly to adjust the point where the scrollwheel no longer ratchets and just freewheels (Logitech put an electrically actuated lever that controls the ratchet into their mice), Solaar has an option to tune it, it works amazingly.

Not to mention how you can bind keyboard shortcuts to specific "gestures" using the palm button.

Solaar is awesome, thank you, Solaar devs!

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