Title. Bought a new Logitech G502 Hero mouse, and it has a button that is meant to be a “DPI Shift”, which is to say that while held it sets the DPI to a value, and when released, returns it to a previous state.

Now, when loading up piper it recognises the mouse, and all its buttons, and I can set things up just fine, but I couldn’t find a mapping that specifically acts as the DPI Shift like it does on Windows. Is this just not supported?

EDIT: It is solved! Thanks to @[email protected] for the idea. Though it DOES suck that I had to boot into my windows install to change the settings.

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    It’s possible that this setting is only available in Logitech software, which is not available on Linux. You could try setting it on a Windows machine (🤮) and save it on the mouse, then use with Linux. Or perhaps there’s a way to run Logitech soft on Linux (wine/VM?).

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      1 year ago

      Well my PC is dual-booted with Windows (I have to, for work reasons, my job pretty much requires the Adobe suite, though as another plus, having to reboot to a different environment where I have none of my games and shit does help my brain change gears from “fun time” to “work time”) – So right now (which is work hours) I have set things up on G Hub and saved it to the mouse’s internal memory. I’ll reboot into Linux later today and see if that made any difference whatsoever.

      EDIT: It woooooorked! :D

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    1 year ago

    For Logitech devices there is also Solaar.

    You can check if it has the functionality you want (not sure, since I haven’t used it much and only for basic stuff).

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    1 year ago

    I would have assumed that this happens purely at the mouse level, with no need for OS integration.

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      1 year ago

      It does not, because this button, like every OTHER button in the mouse, is configurable.

      So if you don’t want to change DPI at all for your gaming/work flow – You can just give yourself extra buttons.

      On Windows to get any functionality out of a Logitech Mouse’s extra buttons you gotta get Logi’s proprietary programme. On Linux, Piper/Ratbag does a great job, but I just couldn’t find this specific mapping (and additionally when I first plugged in the mouse, meaning it’d be on factory settings, the DPI shift button wasn’t doing anything) and that’s why I’m wondering if it’s unsupported.