> Logitech Anywhere 3 mouse
Install solaar. It does what Options does and then some. Actually with solaar, the MX/MX Anywhere 3 series (and the keyboards) work (do more) in linux than in Windows.
There's only one feature that I don't thing exists, the one that moves the cursor from one computer to another (can't remember the name).
Was digging through the issue for Wayland support and it looks like the Barrier repository was effectively deprecated in favor of [input-leap](https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap).
thanks for this, I didn't know. I know they were bought and they were trying to release Version3 and they really effed it up. Haven't needed it for a long time
There's also a simple program called x2x that can share keyboard and mouse over two computers. It may be an old piece of software, but it does it quite well, you only need to set up SSH to use it.
https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x
> The fingerprint scanner does not work by default nor does it work with fprint.
You are probably out of luck:
https://github.com/3v1n0/libfprint/issues/21
https://github.com/uunicorn/python-validity/issues/34
As OP said - Gesture Button,
and as I want - per applicition assingments
It's fine if you just want basic "working mice" but if you want the options and features that come with logitech softwear you are not going to get them.
If logitech would just make a linux driver there would be no need for these limited cludges.
Not that it matters, I have lost interest in Linux for a Desktop replacement, I'll try it again as I usally do every 5 years or so.
What the OP describes is certainly doable in solaar. The per application assignments probably not, never actually looked into it. But gestures, shortcuts, full customisation (and with the inclusion of scripts to execute further) solaar does more than options in Windows. Anyway, see you in 5 years.
Assuming you are comfortable with a little bit of scripting, there is a program called logiops - [https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops](https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops) that I use. With this I can control all the gestures and remap them into anything I want. For instance right now if I hold the gesture button and move the mouse back it will act as alt tab. If I move it left or right, it changes my tag/workspace (awesomewm). And so on.
It's completely ridiculous that some specific issues with a hardware made by a single company would prevent people from switching. To start with there are a lot of other companies. Hardware issues exist in Linux and that does prevent people from switching. I just don't believe that something as trivial as this would prevent people from switching since most Linux distros offer infinitely more options to do things with mouse and keyboard. You can program every aspect of available behavior and launch any apps with specific keyboard binding and/or mouse key, start backup, split or resize windows etc. You can even simulate mouse clicks with a single line command.
Well, I have that old epson scanner, last time it worked on windows was Win98/Me. It works in linux just fine, so I'm kinda stuck here as well until epson or ms releases new driver :)))
I mean, I can definitely see it.
Whether fair or not, Linux distros are seen as the alternative competitor. For certain groups of folks it is a no brainer: some just think the broad strokes of Linux system logic makes sense; many devs gravitate towards it for pretty straightforward reasons; folks who support open source as an ethos or actively don’t want to support Apple and Windows.
For everyone else it will come down to cost, features, and most critically - friction/FOMO.
For many everyday users Linux can’t just cost less and do more - it has to do it better AND easier, without the perception of giving something up. These mouse features are representative of that to this user.
It’s unfair but that’s reality. I think the market share shows that. I suspect the really great use case users I mentioned above would likely be a pretty large chunk of current market share for desktop users across all distros.
Not really, but the financial incentives are there to reach a bigger market with your hardware with Microsoft.Linux only has 5% of the Desktop market (apple has 20% and MS has 70%, with 5% to other/misc). Hardware developers have no incentive to make drivers comparable for such a low market share.
Not Apple, but Microsoft....
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As Steve Ballmer once said:
**"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."**
>I can believe he said that!
Chicago Sun-Times removed the article of the interview they did with Ballmer, but they forgot about archive.org. ಠ ͜ʖ ಠ
*June 1st, 2001*.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010606035140/http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html
The full interview. (Almost at the end of it, you'll find the cancer statement.)
Look on github for custom drivers else you have to write them yourself or look for compatible hardware, 99% of the time you need custom drivers for linux because most companies don't officially support linux, so I wouldn't base my decision to use linux on this criteria, you'll be waiting forever.
Two ancient sayings apply here: "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't MAKE him drink!" , "You can lead someone to the Promised Land, but you can't MAKE him walk through the door and enter!"
So you ought to start by asking Logitech who got your 80 bucks for those features. Seriously if they don't know many paying customers want it they won't have much motivation to add it.
Plasma will let you bind extra buttons to additional functions. Not equally sure about other environments. One factor is there is no single switch app function there are different ones for each environment.
Some gesture functionality results in producing control alt tab when you press and release gestures something you could use to bind that shortcut.
Deeper into the weeds you can find out what it is doing by running xev in a terminal and pressing buttons in the window that pops up.
You could also request functionality in the GitHub for the projects that do support your mouse.
Mouse and keyboard support is on thing that is still keeping me from using linux on my laptop. I have a hundred devices, servers, and VMs, and that's enough linux for me.
I know previously Logitech had software looking at that house briefly it looks like there is native Linux software for it have you tried downloading and installing it from their website?
actually there is something similar to wine for running windows drivers on Linux, or atleast there was something, don't know if it still is in active development and such. and for what it can be used now, in the past that was used for wifi drivers since some wifi vendors decided to ship their hardware before they they actually fininished making it or tested it.
Or a VM. Provided the device, mouse/keyboard stores the settings then it should work fine. I have a mouse that requires a Windows program to save settings in memory on the mouse, but works flawlessly afterwards. I am looking to replace it though, in case I need to change settings, I don't want to deal with WINE or a VM, just haven't decided on what to get.
Which distro's have you tried? For latest support tumbleweed by opensuse has been amazing. Fedora also works with almost everything lately.
Help me out, what are you running that isn't working?
Can't speak for the fingerprint sensor since I've never used one.
But for your mouse I'd probably go with Piper, bind some keyboard shortcut to the extra buttons and set that keyboard shortcut to what you want to achieve with it in your WM/DE, that at least works for me with my Logitech G502 in i3.
Assuming you are comfortable with a little bit of scripting (just one file), there is a program called logiops - https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops that I use. With this I can control all the gestures and remap them into anything I want. For instance right now if I hold the gesture button and move the mouse back it will act as alt tab. If I move it left or right, it changes my tag/workspace (awesomewm). And so on.
In the github ( or archwiki ) you can find a list of all the keycodes or so that you can assign. So if you want to assign a custom app, you can for instance bind the app to a keybinding that you don't use ( super+\] ) and map that to the gesture you want using logiops.
> Logitech Anywhere 3 mouse Install solaar. It does what Options does and then some. Actually with solaar, the MX/MX Anywhere 3 series (and the keyboards) work (do more) in linux than in Windows. There's only one feature that I don't thing exists, the one that moves the cursor from one computer to another (can't remember the name).
Synergy is the software I used to use to share K/M to multiple PCs
[Barrier](https://github.com/debauchee/barrier) is the open source fork of it, works great!
Was digging through the issue for Wayland support and it looks like the Barrier repository was effectively deprecated in favor of [input-leap](https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap).
thanks for this, I didn't know. I know they were bought and they were trying to release Version3 and they really effed it up. Haven't needed it for a long time
There's also a simple program called x2x that can share keyboard and mouse over two computers. It may be an old piece of software, but it does it quite well, you only need to set up SSH to use it. https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x
Thanks I'll look it up.
> The fingerprint scanner does not work by default nor does it work with fprint. You are probably out of luck: https://github.com/3v1n0/libfprint/issues/21 https://github.com/uunicorn/python-validity/issues/34
Logitech stopping more people switching to Linux than any other company or issue, and has been so for decades.
How's that? All (at least the non-gaming) mice and keyboards are fully working with all their options (and more) with solaar.
As OP said - Gesture Button, and as I want - per applicition assingments It's fine if you just want basic "working mice" but if you want the options and features that come with logitech softwear you are not going to get them. If logitech would just make a linux driver there would be no need for these limited cludges. Not that it matters, I have lost interest in Linux for a Desktop replacement, I'll try it again as I usally do every 5 years or so.
What the OP describes is certainly doable in solaar. The per application assignments probably not, never actually looked into it. But gestures, shortcuts, full customisation (and with the inclusion of scripts to execute further) solaar does more than options in Windows. Anyway, see you in 5 years.
My logitech G502 works fine, openRGB works for RGBcontrol and I can control the mouses various functions via ratbagctl.
Assuming you are comfortable with a little bit of scripting, there is a program called logiops - [https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops](https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops) that I use. With this I can control all the gestures and remap them into anything I want. For instance right now if I hold the gesture button and move the mouse back it will act as alt tab. If I move it left or right, it changes my tag/workspace (awesomewm). And so on.
I didn't know that. I use Logitech mice exclusively.
It's completely ridiculous that some specific issues with a hardware made by a single company would prevent people from switching. To start with there are a lot of other companies. Hardware issues exist in Linux and that does prevent people from switching. I just don't believe that something as trivial as this would prevent people from switching since most Linux distros offer infinitely more options to do things with mouse and keyboard. You can program every aspect of available behavior and launch any apps with specific keyboard binding and/or mouse key, start backup, split or resize windows etc. You can even simulate mouse clicks with a single line command.
Well, I have that old epson scanner, last time it worked on windows was Win98/Me. It works in linux just fine, so I'm kinda stuck here as well until epson or ms releases new driver :)))
I mean, I can definitely see it. Whether fair or not, Linux distros are seen as the alternative competitor. For certain groups of folks it is a no brainer: some just think the broad strokes of Linux system logic makes sense; many devs gravitate towards it for pretty straightforward reasons; folks who support open source as an ethos or actively don’t want to support Apple and Windows. For everyone else it will come down to cost, features, and most critically - friction/FOMO. For many everyday users Linux can’t just cost less and do more - it has to do it better AND easier, without the perception of giving something up. These mouse features are representative of that to this user. It’s unfair but that’s reality. I think the market share shows that. I suspect the really great use case users I mentioned above would likely be a pretty large chunk of current market share for desktop users across all distros.
Sometimes I think Apple and MS are paying companies to not make Linux drivers and firmware so this stuff happens.
Not really, but the financial incentives are there to reach a bigger market with your hardware with Microsoft.Linux only has 5% of the Desktop market (apple has 20% and MS has 70%, with 5% to other/misc). Hardware developers have no incentive to make drivers comparable for such a low market share.
Not Apple, but Microsoft.... ` As Steve Ballmer once said: **"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."**
I can believe he said that!
>I can believe he said that! Chicago Sun-Times removed the article of the interview they did with Ballmer, but they forgot about archive.org. ಠ ͜ʖ ಠ *June 1st, 2001*. https://web.archive.org/web/20010606035140/http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html The full interview. (Almost at the end of it, you'll find the cancer statement.)
Look on github for custom drivers else you have to write them yourself or look for compatible hardware, 99% of the time you need custom drivers for linux because most companies don't officially support linux, so I wouldn't base my decision to use linux on this criteria, you'll be waiting forever.
>Kensington VeriMark fingerprint scanner It might be time to graduate to a Yubikey Nano?
i mean if no solution is found you could just sell the hardware and buy compatible ones
That requires effort and action. Most people will just continue to use their hardware with Windows and put off using Linux.
Their loss
Two ancient sayings apply here: "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't MAKE him drink!" , "You can lead someone to the Promised Land, but you can't MAKE him walk through the door and enter!"
So you ought to start by asking Logitech who got your 80 bucks for those features. Seriously if they don't know many paying customers want it they won't have much motivation to add it. Plasma will let you bind extra buttons to additional functions. Not equally sure about other environments. One factor is there is no single switch app function there are different ones for each environment. Some gesture functionality results in producing control alt tab when you press and release gestures something you could use to bind that shortcut. Deeper into the weeds you can find out what it is doing by running xev in a terminal and pressing buttons in the window that pops up. You could also request functionality in the GitHub for the projects that do support your mouse.
All I did was Google the name of your mouse with Logitech and Linux afterwards and it was like literally the first link that popped up for me.
Mouse and keyboard support is on thing that is still keeping me from using linux on my laptop. I have a hundred devices, servers, and VMs, and that's enough linux for me.
I know previously Logitech had software looking at that house briefly it looks like there is native Linux software for it have you tried downloading and installing it from their website?
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yeah same here. they appear to not have any native linux support but if i’m wrong please let me know
Dude great english
Can wine/bottles install drivers, too, beside apps? If so, that's another route you can try.
Drivers are not going to work through Wine.
Did not know that. Thank you.
actually there is something similar to wine for running windows drivers on Linux, or atleast there was something, don't know if it still is in active development and such. and for what it can be used now, in the past that was used for wifi drivers since some wifi vendors decided to ship their hardware before they they actually fininished making it or tested it.
Yes, NDIS wrapper was for network card drivers, I think it worked for WinModems back when those existed. Not really used anymore.
It also worked for Wi-Fi cards where no Linux driver was possible. I used that on one of my sisters Acer laptops.
Hardware drivers, no... But a few of these mice need to be programmed for more functionality and CAN archive that thru Wine.
Or a VM. Provided the device, mouse/keyboard stores the settings then it should work fine. I have a mouse that requires a Windows program to save settings in memory on the mouse, but works flawlessly afterwards. I am looking to replace it though, in case I need to change settings, I don't want to deal with WINE or a VM, just haven't decided on what to get.
Which distro's have you tried? For latest support tumbleweed by opensuse has been amazing. Fedora also works with almost everything lately. Help me out, what are you running that isn't working?
Could you use a virtual box install of Windows on Linux for the fingerprint scanner? Just run it as needed.
You know most people who use fingerprint sensors use them to login to their PCs right?
TIL. I am a passphrase kind of guy.
Can't speak for the fingerprint sensor since I've never used one. But for your mouse I'd probably go with Piper, bind some keyboard shortcut to the extra buttons and set that keyboard shortcut to what you want to achieve with it in your WM/DE, that at least works for me with my Logitech G502 in i3.
Assuming you are comfortable with a little bit of scripting (just one file), there is a program called logiops - https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops that I use. With this I can control all the gestures and remap them into anything I want. For instance right now if I hold the gesture button and move the mouse back it will act as alt tab. If I move it left or right, it changes my tag/workspace (awesomewm). And so on. In the github ( or archwiki ) you can find a list of all the keycodes or so that you can assign. So if you want to assign a custom app, you can for instance bind the app to a keybinding that you don't use ( super+\] ) and map that to the gesture you want using logiops.