Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb

Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Piper is less than 2MB, and allows reconfiguring Logitech mouse buttons. It’s available in Debian and Ubuntu package managers.

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  I had to use Piper to get exotic features like having mouse 6, 7, 8 buttons function as mouse 6, 7, 8, rather than the default of alt-tab and ctrl-v.

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  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is not a driver. The README itself says:

    Piper is merely a graphical frontend to the ratbagd DBus daemon

    ratbagd itself, BTW, is also not a driver.

    The unofficial open source license is called logiops, and according to the Debian site most of its builds are also under 2MB (and the two builds that aren’t are only slightly bigger)

    There is also RatSlap, which I can’t find information on how big it is (and I’m not going to bother installing it just to find out)

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never thought to look for something like this, but it looks fantastic so i’m going to try it. Thanks!

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  • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and if you install it via fatpak its almost 1GB

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    • rolling_resistance@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      7.84 MiB

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      • cacti@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think he meant as in “if this is the first ever GTK application you install via flatpak”. The “Installed Size” on Flathub only indicates the amount of storage the program itself will take up and doesn’t take into account the libraries it will install alongside it (installing piper via flatpak takes up 400MB on my device).

        I still think it is really negligible because people usually don’t install applications that use such a variety of different graphical frameworks, and also because modern PC disk capacities are so absurdly big compared to past ones. I only have a 256GB drive and have never faced any issues regarding how much storage flatpak apps use.

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    would be cool if it also worked on Windows and Macos

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    • ironcrotch@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      better-mouse.com

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    • panicnow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use macmousefix.com/en/ on my Mac mouse. I’m not sure of its range of features.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does it still allow macros? I have a couple of 502s and my older one has fallen victim to the common problem of rhe switch getting bouncey so one click becomes multiple. Supposedly macros can fix this.

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    • cacti@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If your mouse drivers allow setting the debounce timer, you can set it higher so that your system doesn’t allow the bouncing to register.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m never buying another Logitech device again because that problem that happened with my G7 back in the 00s still happened with my G900 in the 20s.

      With my G7, I’d open it up when it started happening, and open up the switch to re-bend the metal piece to give it some spring back. Kept doing this until one day the plastic button that presses down on that metal part fell on carpet and was gone forever.

      With my G900, I said fuck it and just bought some better mouse button switches and replaced the left mouse button. Was actually kinda glad I needed to because the battery had become a danger pillow so I replaced that, too.

      But with the button issue existing for so long and being fixed by a part that cost a trivial amount compared to what I paid in the first place, you can’t convince me that Logitech isn’t deliberately using switches that fail quickly to drive up demand for mice.

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    • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My 903 did that, and so did the one they replaced and now your making me worry about my 502. It’s shitty switches so a macro would hide it for a little at best. I tried to replace them but these are not fun to open up.

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    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a physical defect. Macros make one key press effect one or more action button or key press. For instance if a common operation involves pressing a b and c in sequence you can make one button on your mouse actuate that sequence.

      You can’t bind a macro to left click because then you can’t left click anymore. Even if you bound double clicking to single click (if this is even possible) it would mean every time it single click you would effect nothing which is equally if not more broken.

      You need to either take your mouse apart and fix it or throw it in the trash.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, it is a physical defect but it is common enough that people have been able to work around it with macros.

        It’s been a while since I tried to look into this or fix it, but a quick search shows what I think was a possible solution. (Might not be, I’m just trying to be explanatory of what I mean by a macro fixing a double click problem.) techenclave.com/t/…/269878

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