Need help managing various Razer devices on Linux? Polychromatic v0.8.3 is out now with improved hardware support powered by OpenRazer. Since Razer (like many other hardware vendors) don't support Linux directly, you'll need something like this to manage your hardware fully and deal with all that RGB goodness.
Changelog for v0.8.3:
What's New?
- Add device map for Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro (#499, @nilo-puglisi)
- Add device map for Razer Cynosa V2 (US) (#500, @bbacskay)
- Add support for wheel effect (for compatible OpenRazer hardware)
Changes
- Add 🇬🇪 Georgian translation (#496, @NorwayFun)
- Add DPI defaults for Naga V2 HyperSpeed.
- Troubleshooter: Check for old copies of OpenRazer's Python library.
Fixes
See more on the GitHub page.
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Quoting: Linuxerumm 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 allYou 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?
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Quoting: Liam DaweI 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.
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Quoting: CyrilQuoting: Linuxerumm 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 allYou 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 !
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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
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
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Quoting: NyxWho 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
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Quoting: TherinSQuoting: NyxWho 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
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