Libratbag + Piper Allow For Great Logitech Gaming Mouse Support On Linux

[Brisse]

@gerry_here_to_learn:
I've got a Deathadder right now, but when it dies I'm considering a Ducky mouse for this specific reason. Already got one of their keyboards and they are also driverless and configurable in hardware. A shame the firmware updater is Windows only though. Hope fwupd can be used for these peripherals one day.

[gogo]

Michael
Ratbag, Piper PPA updated!

[dpanter]

Debian sid needed additional packages for Ratbag since I didn't have meson/ninja installed.
If someone else was wondering the same, here's the list.

meson libevdev-dev libsystemd-dev check valgrind swig python3-dev

Anyway, turns out the Logitech G602 is 'special' and of course does not work. Yay.

https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag/issues/434

Didn't install Piper since there's no point for me atm.

[pal666]

What's unfortunate though is their dependency on systemd's dbus lib, which effectively means a dependency on systemd because it's quiet impractical to get that lib without getting the rest of systemd. Kinda crazy such a simple userspace program effectively depends on a init system

it's linux prorgam, it depends on linux. linux' init system is part of systemd

[Girolamo_Cavazzoni]

Ratbag/Piper is available on Fedora and other Linux distributions.

Tell me in which version of Fedora Piper is available. Not in mine (28), by the way. Libratbag is available, though (and ratbagctl is not).

[phomes]

Tell me in which version of Fedora Piper is available. Not in mine (28), by the way. Libratbag is available, though (and ratbagctl is not).

On fedora 29:
$ dnf info piper
Name : piper
Version : 0.2.900
Release : 3.20180214git5f6ed20.fc29
Arch : noarch
Size : 438 k
Source : piper-0.2.900-3.20180214git5f6ed20.fc29.src.rpm
Repo : @System
From repo : fedora
Summary : GTK application to configure gaming mice
URL : https://github.com/libratbag/piper
License : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2.1+
Description : Piper is a GTK+ application to configure gaming mice, using libratbag
: via ratbagd.

[Girolamo_Cavazzoni]

Thanks... Then I'll wait for the upgrade and subsequently try to to add both my G400s and G402 to their list of supported devices afterwards.

[aaahaaap]

Using anything but the lib from systemd would be unfortunate. It is by far the best dbus library and the one with the sanest API. Choosing an inferior library simply due to which repository the code lives in would be ill-advised.

Yeah, from a code/library perspective it makes sense. The repo where the code lives in is not all that relevant, what doesn't make sense is that it's only available as part of an effectively monolithic release.
It's just a DBus lib, should just be split off and be a separate project with it's own lifecycle and no unnecessary dependencies. Then you have a usable project and a usable building block.

[Melcar]

One less reason to keep my Windows install. Excellent. Going to give it a go with my G502.

[Melcar]

Have not tested it fully, but managed to get it installed on my system and it at least detects the mouse. Using Kubuntu 18.04 64bit and a G502 (non RGB).
Even with the ppa I had to take a few extra steps to get it to work. First, the version in the ppa is apparently old and has a bug where it will not start if you have an unassigned button. I had to load LGS in Windows and assign actions to all the mouse buttons. Second issue, even with the ppa I was still missing a library. Forgot which one, but I think it is python3-gi-cairo. After those two workarounds the program launches with no problems.