For years, I’ve used a Razor Naga with DPI switching on one of the side buttons, and for years before that, it was a Logitech G600. I’ve just installed Linux for the first time in a while only to realize Razor doesn’t offer support, and Polychromatic doesn’t offer button remapping.

Is there any way to rebind my mouse, or will I have to go back to Windows to keep using my mouse?

1Edit: plz send help fast. I am typing “1” into every window I open. I need rebind this before I break something.1

Edit21: Is there a way to bind a sensitivity toggle to the mouse button event more directly?

Edit 3: I’ve run out of time to work on this, so I’ll need to install Windows for the time being. I might come back to it if I ever get a weekend free.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    I haven’t used it, but it looks like you can change DPI with the razor-cli command.

    https://github.com/lolei/razer-cli

    Says it can also print the current DPI, so I imagine that it’d be pretty straightforward to do a shell script of maybe three lines or so that cycles resolution through your favored resolutions when invoked. Doesn’t show an example of the exact output of the command, though, so I can’t tell you exactly what to run.

    Looks like you can also set the LED color, if you want to have it indicate the DPI or something.

    If you can’t figure out the script but can paste the exact output from the command printing the current DPI, I can probably help you with the script.

    I use Sway, and Sway can be configured to invoke commands when a button or key or whatever is pressed, so you’d just have it run said script.

    https://man.archlinux.org/man/sway.5.en

    You don’t say what desktop environment you’re using. If you’re using Gnome or KDE, I expect that there’s some similar utility, probably built into the desktop environment, to bind mouse buttons to invoke commands.

    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      1>Says it can also print the current DPI, so I imagine that it’d be pretty straightforward to do a shell script of maybe three lines or so that cycles resolution through your favored resolutions when invoked. Doesn’t show an example of the exact output of the command, though, so I can’t tell you exactly what to run.

      I installed it. The output from razer-cli --dpi print is just my dpi (1400).

      11>I use Sway, and Sway can be configured to invoke commands when a button or key or whatever is pressed, so you’d just have it run said script.1

      1I’m using Cinnamon, on Linux Mint

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        The output from razer-cli --dpi print is just my dpi (1400).

        Okay. Something like this should work:

        #!/bin/bash
dpi=$(razer-cli --dpi print)
case $dpi in
  1400)
    razer-cli --dpi 20000
    ;;
  20000)
    razer-cli --dpi 1400
    ;;
esac

        If the resolutions you want are 1400 and 20000 dpi.

        save it as cycle.sh or something like that in a directory in your PATH, and chmod +x it to make it executable. Every time it runs, it’ll cycle though resolutions. Can add more resolutions or fiddle with the colors or whatever there too.

        Cinnamon

        Okay. I haven’t used any GNOME stuff in ages, but it sounds like Cinnamon’s keyboard applet only does keyboard bindings, so can’t bind a mouse button to a command.

        https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/12840

        I don’t know what the best route to run a command on mouse click is under Cinnamon is.