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| - | ===== Solaar (Logitech Unifying Receiver) ===== | + | ===== Mouse and keyboard ===== |
| - | Solaar is a Linux devices manager for the Logitech Unifying Receiver, see the [[http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/index.html|Solaar website]]. | + | It was difficult to decide wheteher the mouse and keyboard utilities should fit in the "desktop utilities" or "tricks" category. Who cares after all as, even if they finally made it into the "tricks" section, you can [[[[tricks:mxmouse|read all about them here]]. |
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| - | Normaly the logitech-djreceiver driver should already be enabled and loaded, you can check on that by typing viewing dmesg right after pluging in the unifying receiver, it should output something like: | + | |
| - | <code> | + | |
| - | dmesg | + | |
| - | [21449.244283] usb 1-1.1.2: new full-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci | + | |
| - | [21449.357947] usb 1-1.1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c52b | + | |
| - | [21449.357955] usb 1-1.1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 | + | |
| - | [21449.357959] usb 1-1.1.2: Product: USB Receiver | + | |
| - | [21449.357962] usb 1-1.1.2: Manufacturer: Logitech | + | |
| - | [21449.368092] logitech-djreceiver 0003:046D:C52B.000F: hiddev0,hidraw5: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:04.1-1.1.2/input2 | + | |
| - | [21449.371256] input: Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:101a as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1.2/1-1.1.2:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.000F/input/input18 | + | |
| - | [21449.371521] logitech-djdevice 0003:046D:C52B.0010: input,hidraw6: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:101a] on usb-0000:00:04.1-1.1.2:1 | + | |
| - | </code> | + | |
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| - | Also, the udev package must be installed and the daemon running, which is probably the case since it's the /dev/ and hotplug management daemon... You'd already have noticed if it wasn't there ;-) | + | |
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| - | Create a file solaar.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, with the following contents: | + | |
| - | <code> | + | |
| - | sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/solaar.list | + | |
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| - | deb http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/packages/ ./ | + | |
| - | deb-src http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/packages/ ./ | + | |
| - | </code> | + | |
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| - | Then update your packages descriptions and install: | + | |
| - | <code> | + | |
| - | sudo apt-get update | + | |
| - | sudo apt-get install solaar | + | |
| - | </code> | + | |
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| - | Solaar is now accessible through the "Applications > Accessories" menu. | + | |
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| - | In case you're interested in a little more options regarding what Linux has to offer regarding mouses and keyboards, you're invited to read the [[tricks:mxmouse|Mouse & Keyboard]] article of this wiki... Gestures... you know?.. Gestures? | + | |
