Logitech Gaming Keyboards

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Some Logitech Gaming Keyboards can work on Linux through Unofficial drivers. There are a few packages available

the python based Gnome15 project
the C based g15daemon project.
https://github.com/tolga9009/sidewinderd
https://github.com/Wattos/logitech-g710-linux-driver
https://github.com/MatMoul/g810-led
Animation support with C++ based Keyleds project.
Gkeys support for G910 Orion Spectrum/Spark: g910-gkeys-git^AUR (https://github.com/JSubelj/g910-gkey-macro-support), or a fork of it supporting M keys and their profile changing ability here (https://github.com/MR-R080T/g910-gkey-macro-support)
Some Logitech gaming mice and keyboards are remappable using libratbag and piper. The app includes basic LED led customization and a simple graphical interface.
LED customization support is available through openrgb for most keyboards.

Install

g15daemon^AUR and its dependencies are available in the Arch User Repository (AUR). G15daemon drivers still work for the keyboards they supported, but their development was mostly dropped in 2008, the source is still available for anyone to pick up and continue their development, there are a few bugs in them that were never solved. These drivers use the g15macro^AUR to interact with the G keys. There is also a g15stats^AUR plugin to show system information on the LCD display.

sidewinderd^AUR

hid-lg-g710-plus-dkms-git^AUR

keyleds^AUR is available through Arch User Repository. Detailed configuration, effects and LUA scripting are in the project's documentation.

Supported Models

g15daemon supports:

G15 (Orange and Blue)
G11
Gamepad
G510 (Requires Patching; Read below)

Gnome15^{[dead link 2023-10-29 ⓘ]} has a list of supported devices on its front page. The keyboards are:

G19
G19s
G15 (Orange and Blue)
G13
G110
G510 and G510s (Partial)

sidewinderd^AUR supports:

G710 / G710+
G105
(and Microsoft SideWinder X4 / X6, hence name)

hid-lg-g710-plus-dkms-git^AUR supports:

Logitech G710 / G710+

g810-led-git^AUR led supports:

G213
G410
G413
G512
G513
G610
G810
G815
G910
GPRO

keyleds^AUR led supports (possible lua scripting):

G410
G610
G810
G910
GPro

G510 on g15daemon

Forum Thread (This thread has more detailed instructions and might be helpful for readers from other distributions or less advanced users, it also contains a list of known issues.)

Note: This has not been tested with the G510s, if you want to try then find line 23 and 24 in the libg15.patch linked below and replace the device ID with the appropriate values for G510s which can be found with lsusb command from the usbutils package

A patch was written to make the G510 keyboard fully compatible with the g15daemon drivers. It is however not compatible with g15macro and as such an alternative approach was needed (which involved heavy modifications of the original code) the result yields much better performance for than using the gnome15 drivers which can currently result in severe input lag for this keyboard.

To apply the patch you must download the g15daemon^AUR and libg15^AUR sources.

Then download the libg15 and g15daemon patches and modify to your will. The color profiles per M-Led settings are hard coded into the libg15 patch at line 341, 344, 347 and 350 in R,G,B color code.

Then place the files (libg15.patch and g15daemon.patch) into the folders that your packages were downloaded into, after this you must replace the PKGBUILDS with the new ones: g15daemon, libg15 These new PKGBUILDS refer to local sources only, this means they do not fetch sources from the net if they are not present so make sure you hold on to your tar.bz2 files. If you want them to fetch these from the net you can refer to the original PKGBUILDs.

Now install the packages, libg15^AUR comes first, libg15render^AUR is required as well before you install g15daemon:

$ makepkg -fic

This will compile, install and clean up the extracted sources afterwards to avoid cluttering the folder. I also recommend installing g15stats^AUR from AUR next. For fluff.

After the installation you need to create the macro script files, and place them into /usr/share/g15daemon/macros. If you want to create them yourself the files need to be executable and the filenames are corresponding to the label on each key (so for the G1 key use /usr/share/g15daemon/macros/G1). Normally these files should use the bash script syntax.

Note: You will need to have sudo installed and configure it so that g15daemon can be run without a password. The sleep command is to give g15daemon time to launch before g15stats is loaded into it

For commands on the G keys to work with graphical applications g15daemon must be started after the X11 session. To do this you must add these commands to your autostart/xinitrc:

$ sudo g15daemon && sleep 3 && g15stats

And congratulations! you have a working G510 keyboard on Linux :) With a few issues of course (known issues are in the forum thread linked to at the start of this section)