Polychromatic Alternatives

polychromatic reviews and mentions

• Open razer
  1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 3 Jul 2023

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

• Problem Installing OpenRazer; bookwork Release Issue
  2 projects | /r/pop_os | 29 Dec 2022

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

• Trying to update a package to contribute, error with common.py?
  1 project | /r/NixOS | 5 Dec 2022

  { 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 ]; }; }

• I am a high DPI user. Is it possible to adjust the Pointer Speed in mouse settings to between first and second level? Or even by command, is that possible?
  2 projects | /r/kde | 1 Dec 2022

  Install frontend : https://polychromatic.app

• Need some answers regarding grub and booting in general to switch to Linux and not fuck it up
  2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 16 Aug 2022
• Hardware Brand
  2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 8 Jul 2022

  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

• Razer blackwidow keyboard backlights
  2 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 15 Jun 2022

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

• OpenRazer/Polychromatic need to be restarted after boot/reboot to work after last Fedora 36 update
  1 project | /r/Fedora | 7 Jun 2022
• While not everyone likes Razer, we all have the F key
  1 project | /r/pcmasterrace | 1 May 2022

  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/

• Is there any software like this for Windows? Is there anyway to run it on Windows?
  1 project | /r/razer | 4 Feb 2022
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