polychromatic VS openrazer

For openrazer to function easily, you need additional software. I’ve used Polychromatic.

I'm trying to install OpenRazer to utilize Polychromatic and come into a problem that says:

{ lib , fetchFromGitHub , bash , glib , gdk-pixbuf , gettext , imagemagick , ninja , meson , sassc , python3Packages , gobject-introspection , wrapGAppsHook , libappindicator-gtk3 , libxcb , qt5 , ibus , usbutils }: python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec { name = "polychromatic"; version = "0.8.0"; format = "other"; src = fetchFromGitHub { owner = "polychromatic"; repo = "polychromatic"; rev = "v${version}"; #sha256 = "sha256-H++kQ3Fxw56avEsSE1ctu5p0s50s0eQ+jL5zXS3AA94="; sha256 = "sha256-ym2pcGUWM5zCUx/lYs+WECj+wbyBtWnx04W/NRXNKlw="; }; postPatch = '' patchShebangs scripts substituteInPlace scripts/build-styles.sh \ --replace '$(which sassc 2>/dev/null)' '${sassc}/bin/sassc' \ --replace '$(which sass 2>/dev/null)' '${sassc}/bin/sass' substituteInPlace pylib/common.py \ --replace "/usr/share/polychromatic" "$out/share/polychromatic" ''; preConfigure = '' scripts/build-styles.sh ''; propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ colorama colour openrazer pyqt5 pyqtwebengine requests setproctitle libxcb openrazer-daemon libappindicator-gtk3 ibus usbutils ]; nativeBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ gettext gobject-introspection meson ninja sassc wrapGAppsHook qt5.wrapQtAppsHook ]; dontWrapGapps = true; dontWrapQtApps = true; makeWrapperArgs = [ "\${gappsWrapperArgs[@]}" "\${qtWrapperArgs[@]}" ]; meta = with lib; { homepage = "https://polychromatic.app/"; description = "Graphical front-end and tray applet for configuring Razer peripherals on GNU/Linux."; longDescription = '' Polychromatic is a frontend for OpenRazer that enables Razer devices to control lighting effects and more on GNU/Linux. ''; license = licenses.gpl3; platforms = platforms.linux; maintainers = with maintainers; [ evanjs ]; }; }

Install frontend : https://polychromatic.app

I've tried multiple different brands of keyboards and mice and all of them worked well with Linux, often even if Linux wasn't advertised on the box (I wouldn't bet on that though). More well known brands have better support e.g. Razer has OpenRazer and Polychromatic

I re-installed open-razer on Ubuntu and also installed Polychromatic.

The irony is that razer has some of the best software as long as you are not using windows. The community maintained openrazer drivers on Linux work great. https://polychromatic.app/

So if a very skilled developer reverse engineer a driver for some brands (OpenRazer as an example), I feel better about it especially if it's open source.

Why are you trying to run a setup.exe? For linux there's Open Razer

What a interesting device. As I searching I found mousepad has different device id than mouse itself. this driver may solve your problems. If problem continues could you please share system info with upload-system-info from terminal and sudo lspci -v

Yeah I would take piper over any of that bloated peripheral software anyway, gets the job done. There's also other community projects like OpenRazer. For a keyboard I grabbed a System76 Launch, it's a bit pricey but it's super nice and fully customizable via an appimage.

Wouldn't it be easier to install Openrazer? https://github.com/openrazer/openrazer