alienfx VS RazerGenie

Hey. I recently installed pop on an alienware laptop and forgot to change the key lights before I obliterated windows. As a result of this - if the computer is on, the keyboard lights are on, and they shine a beautiful bright blue hue. I'd like to either make that a dim red or be able to turn it on and off. I tried alienfx for linux but it did not work for me. I looked through a few alternatives and it looks like they all operate in a similar way. It looks like I want to use python or c (probably python for something like this) and send codes like these to something. I'm not super familiar with this area of hardware/programming. I have no problem slowly going through these different tools and eventually figuring it out, but if there is an up to date / modern alternative to alienfx or some easy way to do what I have described, I'd love to save some time and frustration.

I had success with alienfx. Check if your device is supported here https://github.com/trackmastersteve/alienfx/blob/master/docs/Knowledgebase/Devicelist.md

Linux users need to have Windows installed just to tweak a fan setting or a keyboard lighting (You might be lucky if your system is supported by this but damn it give Linux users some support too)

well there's Razer genie if you happen to run a superior operating system like Arch linux or something...

openrazer: https://openrazer.github.io/ (also has list of supported devices) razergenie: https://github.com/z3ntu/RazerGenie

Also I tried RazerGenie and razerCommander.

If you have multi-button mouse, I recommend Piper or input-remapper. Again, I have had issues using them on Wayland, but they are otherwise pretty good softwares. There is also RazerGenie / RazerCommander if you use their stuff.

For your Razer peripherals there is a project called openrazer. For a graphical way to manage it you could install something like RazerGenie or Polychromatic

razergenie https://github.com/z3ntu/RazerGenie