polychromatic VS piper

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/

When I used G-Hub, I could also save to the mouse. I not longer use Windows, but there is also a Linux native program to configure Logitech gaming mouses, Piper. https://github.com/libratbag/piper

What happened to Piper? The git repository is still somewhat active (last commit fwas a month ago): https://github.com/libratbag/piper

- Piper: Configure gaming mice (e.g. DPI, LED)

https://github.com/libratbag/piper if you are familiar with compiling

I use Piper for controlling the buttons and stuff, but that's because I'm on Linux, so I don't know what alternatives there are for Windows.

If you want to configure what your buttons do, you should take a look at Piper

Check out Piper it is a gui app working on top of libratbag which is a library to interface with Logitech (or other) mice. Check the link for a list of compatible devices

Have you tried Piper?

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.