Logitech G500 and Linux

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:10:47 +0000

Despite not being a gamer at all I see having a decent mouse as an important thing, I spend 10 to 15 hours a day in front of my PC and probably for at least half of the time I’m using the mouse, so I don’t get why I should not have the best input peripherals on the market.
My current mouse is a Logitech G500 (NP 910-001262), of course it being the best mouse on the market is an highly debatable thing since, along side with the keyboard, mouse choice is highly subjective.
G500 is something you love or you hate, starting from the unusual scroll wheel, going to the sensor position to the strange side buttons there are a lot of uncommon things.
This small write-up is not meant to be a review nor a guide, I would like it to be just a bunch of tips from someone who is using a G500 on a Linux box.
First of all: this mouse has no angle snapping, or better, out of the box angle snapping is enabled (Logitech, why? seriously, none like angle snapping) but it can be disabled from drivers.
Obviously drivers are available only for Windows (Logitech…) and I don’t seem to be able to change mouse settings from a virtual machine (VMware Workstation 9), anyway I didn’t put much time on this so it could be doable.
So what I suggest is plug G500 in a physical Windows machine, install drivers and tune the settings, once you are done, save settings on G500 internal memory and plug it in your Linux machine.
Once in Linux, which in my case is Fedora 18 and XFCE as DE, there are still acceleration issues which can be solved quite easily using xinput.
– Someone report that G500 sensor is flawed and it has some kind of built-in acceleration, honestly I don’t see it but could be that I’m just used to it –

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Logitech G500 and Linux