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Will a virtual machine work for this? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago by technomad@slrpnk.net to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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Newbie here. First of all, I successfully took ownership of a folder using the command line and I am proud of that. Even though it ended up being irrelevant for the problem in the end, it was still satisfying to be able to figure it out finally. Using the command line makes me feel like I'm doing cool stuff B)

So, I was doing some digging, trying to get my mouse to work properly, and I ended up finding out some things. Hopefully this saves somebody some time/frustration in the future.

-Logitech's software doesn't work in Linux (of course)

-Piper doesn't work for this model (g502x PLUS) yet.

Bummer.

There is a workaround, however. This model actually includes on-board memory! Sweet, my money was not wasted after all!

So, I just went back to windows (gross) and set up the profile I had been using previously. (sidenote, who TF uses forward and back for the side buttons? It obviously should be ctrl and shift for the defaults, respectively...) When I got back on my new setup, it was a success!!! It works perfectly well, and no issues so far.

Now, for the main question, is there any easy way to set this up from Linux by using a windows virtual machine or something similar?

Thanks for reading.

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[–] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

if it worked that way then it should work the same from a win vm, you may have to fiddle with passing through the usb device or hub but that's usually auto for mouse and keyboard. i'd recommend virtmanager to run vms, btw.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

In Linux, I used Input Remapper https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper to configure my Microsoft mouse buttons. I never tried it with a virtual machine, so I'm not sure about that.

And yes, forward and back were really annoying settings for it.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks, I'll check it out

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

is your microsoft mouse you mentioned wired or wireless?

I'm having some issues getting it to work with wireless, haven't tried doing it wired yet.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's wired. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

No worries, I'm just wondering if there's a workaround for my controller actually. I don't know what the issue is, it seems like the software allows me to remap one of the button inputs how I'm wanting to but when I start a game the controller is no longer recognized when I have the remapping software running for it.

I may just make a separate post about it.