Polychromatic app for managing Razer devices v0.8.3 out now

Could therebe a snap pack ? im overwhelmed on the install page again https://openrazer.github.io/#ubuntu and they say ppa is dangerous

Could therebe a snap pack ? im overwhelmed on the install page again https://openrazer.github.io/#ubuntu and they say ppa is dangerous

Hi Linuxer. This and considering your question in the previous article for fheroes2, maybe it's time to think about installing another linux distro that's more open and community/standard friendly than Ubuntu? I don't mean this in any kind of disrespectful or mean way, Ubuntu is (was) known to be user friendly and most supported distro, but the last few years they went their own route with snaps, are downright hostile to flatpak and are obviously no longer trying to support their user base like they used to, so maybe it's time to switch to one of the many available alternatives. I suggest looking at Mint, Manjaro or Fedora...since you are already familiar with Ubuntu, Mint would probably be easiest to jump into. It uses apt as package manager and supports flatpak out of the box. I honestly think this will make setting up openrazer, fheroes2 and plenty of other open source software mentioned on this site much easier for you. Good luck!

Could therebe a snap pack ? im overwhelmed on the install page again https://openrazer.github.io/#ubuntu and they say ppa is dangerous

There's nothing dangerous about the PPA. Just use that and be happy with it or download the .deb from their GitHub and use that.


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 20 November 2023 at 8:48 pm UTC

Probably still can't handle multiple device dongle setups.

I have to use single dongle because having multiple dongles just causes noise and they talk over each other.

Yay I can now once again change
Rgb settings on my razer devices.

It's truly useful to only have to swap into my desktop for peripheral functionality instead of also having to do it for rgb which I totally haven't left as standard since getting the devices.

Who needs to remap macros and buttons for their mmo peripherals right?
It's much better needing win11 installed on the second disk for when you need to change settings.

(This isn't an attack at the devz they are doing a swell job)
But God does razer leave some support to be desired.

I don't know why I get hopeful every time I see these apps updated that just maybe there might be actual functionality but nope I'm still stuck needing a Windows laptop near me or dual boot my system if I want to change my mouse settings, I do have all the rgb options in the world though.

Sorry for strong sarcasm but even ratbag/piper doesn't support razer because they apparently have that functionality locked off or something.

Could therebe a snap pack ? im overwhelmed on the install page again https://openrazer.github.io/#ubuntu and they say ppa is dangerous

Hi Linuxer. This and considering your question in the previous article for fheroes2, maybe it's time to think about installing another linux distro that's more open and community/standard friendly than Ubuntu? I don't mean this in any kind of disrespectful or mean way, Ubuntu is (was) known to be user friendly and most supported distro, but the last few years they went their own route with snaps, are downright hostile to flatpak and are obviously no longer trying to support their user base like they used to, so maybe it's time to switch to one of the many available alternatives. I suggest looking at Mint, Manjaro or Fedora...since you are already familiar with Ubuntu, Mint would probably be easiest to jump into. It uses apt as package manager and supports flatpak out of the box. I honestly think this will make setting up openrazer, fheroes2 and plenty of other open source software mentioned on this site much easier for you. Good luck!

umm nope those never worked for me thats why i use ubuntu. for example fedora didnt even play youtube videos or twitch. can there be a snap package thats all

Could therebe a snap pack ? im overwhelmed on the install page again https://openrazer.github.io/#ubuntu and they say ppa is dangerous

There's nothing dangerous about the PPA. Just use that and be happy with it or download the .deb from their GitHub and use that.

ohok but where is the deb pack ? on that github there is only that ppa thing:

https://openrazer.github.io/#ubuntu

Ubuntu / Linux Mint / elementaryOS / Pop!_OS / Zorin OS

Starting with 20.04, OpenRazer is available from the official repositories. However, you may need to install our package if your device was added in a newer version.

elementaryOS users need to install a prerequisite first:

sudo apt install software-properties-gtk

To install the latest release, add this PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openrazer/stable

Or for latest development builds:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openrazer/daily

After adding the PPA, install the packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openrazer-meta

If you get dependency errors when trying to install the driver packages, please make sure that you have enabled the “universe” repository in Software & Updates.

Am i blind because io really cant find it!

I guess you don't use GitHub much. Go to the releases page, select a release, scroll down to the downloads under Assets. Would be a lot easier if it was just on Flathub.

Could therebe a snap pack ? im overwhelmed on the install page again https://openrazer.github.io/#ubuntu and they say ppa is dangerous

I'm totally not surprised getting overwhelmed trying to install this. Usually when normal people click a Download button they expect and get a simple package and the installation can start the next minute. But here clicking Download, you get:

!Wall of text with overtly technical blabber

Would be a lot easier if it was just on Flathub.

THIS! Exactly! It is beyond me, why so many key projects will not just provide a flatpak in Flathub or a snap in Snap Store.

umm nope those never worked for me thats why i use ubuntu. for example fedora didnt even play youtube videos or twitch. can there be a snap package thats all

You can't be serious... It just seems you're a Windowser on Linux, not a Linuxer.
I could be wrong, but I think you asked that sort of questions in the past "how to install this or that", did you learn something?

I guess you don't use GitHub much. Go to the releases page, select a release, scroll down to the downloads under Assets. Would be a lot easier if it was just on Flathub.

thats true ive never used it.

umm nope those never worked for me thats why i use ubuntu. for example fedora didnt even play youtube videos or twitch. can there be a snap package thats all

You can't be serious... It just seems you're a Windowser on Linux, not a Linuxer.
I could be wrong, but I think you asked that sort of questions in the past "how to install this or that", did you learn something?

i have said nothing bad to you !

It has been my experience on Linux that you can just use it on easy mode (e.g. by using Mint), which is what I almost always do nowadays, or you can use bleeding edge software, but you cannot generally do both. If you want the bleeding edge stuff, you need to learn a little about how to do stuff.

Back when, the state of the Linux software ecosystem and even to some extent the OS itself, particularly drivers, meant that it was pretty much imperative to use bleeding edge stuff, and I grumbled and did so enough to be deeply familiar with the expression "dependency hell". But now, stuff dated enough to be included in the Mint repositories is fine for me; none of the brand new stuff is compelling enough to make me want to do things like interact with Github, install a package from the command line or whatnot. But I'm aware that if I do want the brandest newest stuff, the price is I'm going to have to learn how again.

As to PPAs, even those I've only used a couple of times. But I like them because once you've added one, your distro will include it in the stuff to be updated and so it will update automatically--you have in effect added it into the stuff your distro is automatically managing for you, meaning you won't have to manage it yourself. Add something by hand and it's your problem from there on in. They're safe enough as long as you know who made the PPA, which is pretty much the same for things on Github, Flatpaks or whatever.


Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 21 November 2023 at 8:08 pm UTC

Who needs to remap macros and buttons for their mmo peripherals right?
It's much better needing win11 installed on the second disk for when you need to change settings.

(This isn't an attack at the devz they are doing a swell job)
But God does razer leave some support to be desired.

I don't know why I get hopeful every time I see these apps updated that just maybe there might be actual functionality but nope I'm still stuck needing a Windows laptop near me or dual boot my system if I want to change my mouse settings, I do have all the rgb options in the world though.

Sorry for strong sarcasm but even ratbag/piper doesn't support razer because they apparently have that functionality locked off or something.

I've mentioned it in another post and the project has been mentioned here on GoL, even once after its name change. This project allows you to re-program just about any input button on any device to mimic any key/key combinations you can type on a keyboard. I use it for my gameboards like the Razer Orbweaver and Tartarus, and it works fine for my Belkin Nostromo n52. I am currently using a Delux T9 just so I don't wear out my beloved Orbweaver, but you can use it for standard keyboards and input peripherals of just about any kind.

https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

As mentioned, go over to the right side and click "latest" under Releases, and install using the .deb file if you are on an xbuntu distro.

Enjoy!


Last edited by TherinS on 25 November 2023 at 11:55 pm UTC

Who needs to remap macros and buttons for their mmo peripherals right?
It's much better needing win11 installed on the second disk for when you need to change settings.

(This isn't an attack at the devz they are doing a swell job)
But God does razer leave some support to be desired.

I don't know why I get hopeful every time I see these apps updated that just maybe there might be actual functionality but nope I'm still stuck needing a Windows laptop near me or dual boot my system if I want to change my mouse settings, I do have all the rgb options in the world though.

Sorry for strong sarcasm but even ratbag/piper doesn't support razer because they apparently have that functionality locked off or something.

I've mentioned it in another post and the project has been mentioned here on GoL, even once after its name change. This project allows you to re-program just about any input button on any device to mimic any key/key combinations you can type on a keyboard. I use it for my gameboards like the Razer Orbweaver and Tartarus, and it works fine for my Belkin Nostromo n52. I am currently using a Delux T9 just so I don't wear out my beloved Orbweaver, but you can use it for standard keyboards and input peripherals of just about any kind.

https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

As mentioned, go over to the right side and click "latest" under Releases, and install using the .deb file if you are on an xbuntu distro.

Enjoy!

Thanks I already found this solution a while back and have been using it for a while, and have recommended it to others as well, but I would still like to see the ability to remap the native input on the device.
(This is a rather hacky solution to something razer could provide a fix if they gave even an inch)

Although I haven't used it since swapping to wayland so I haven't confirmed it actually works there.

I rarely remap my mouse on Linux but that's kind of a habit I got from learning how big a pain it was initially so I just made some presets on Windows I saved to my mouse I flex in between, and only in the rare occasions those profiles don't work do I remember input remapper exists once again.

Installed it the other day but pressing apply didn't seem to do much and as I was mid raid, I opted to just connect it to my laptop and remap it with razer software.

That said thanks for trying to provide a solution I appreciate it but I was very much just having a rant about open razer is a glorified rgb controller because razer won't allow access to anything meaningful

And I'm unfortunately not part of the debian master race, I'm a measly fedora peasant running nobara ^_^

But most things have usable rpms and I think the app might even be in nobara package manager or I used an rpm can't remember ^_^


Last edited by Nyx on 26 November 2023 at 5:10 pm UTC