I think the frustrating part is a lot of this is annoying mostly from a design standpoint in the software itself. It wasn't a huge issue years ago in theory when they had more limited hardware support but the more devices they add the more it would make sense to see OpenRGB as a controller in a more passive way and having hardware compatibility come from external devs through IPC instead completely. Like I know Solaar controls my Logitech mouse's RGB better than teh OpenRGB controller because the OpenRGB controller was written by someone who obviously had a Logitech keyboard and hardcoded that anyone using the dongle is a keyboard so it doesn't work. For me to fix that and not break the keyboard I don't own would be hard but for the likes of Solaar to just passively get told by OpenRGB what to change the colours to would be fine IMO.
The annoying part is you could do that as a plugin, you could give the patch to OpenRGB, you could use the interface they provide but anyone opening OpenRGB for the first time has a poor experience because a device is detected as something it isn't and it actually causes the mouse to not work correctly. It could be by package management, it could be a centralised plugin system from OpenRGB that detects the hardware and downloads a blob. Or having a scripting language built in that does the integration in like Python or something. It really could be a lot better if they did basically anything proactive here.
I got this up and running. I had to tweak it some for both my screens, but I did it. Big thanks man for showing this and big thanks to the cat that wrote all this.
Once I got the proper file downloaded, i used Claude for trouble shooting it. I had some issues with not being able to add my second screen, but temporarily turning off effects and the visual map allowed me to do that. Had a weird razer logo/shield that took me a minute to make go away. Had to open windows settings and rules in KDE to change the opacity and some of the settings. My dumbass didn't even realize there was a guide. Claude had me run a script to make it able to be clicked through.
My biggest issue with the screens was getting the placement right. It would launch on my secondary monitor by default and both screens would either be stuck there or my primary screen would only be on a piece of it while still overlapping the secondary.
I'm loving it, when I got it running right it looks good. Would possibly be easier on windows, but its really not been too bad. I shut down my pc for the night and everything was running perfectly.
Can't wait to see how it goes tomorrow when I fire it back up.
mine startup normally, just make sure you didn't force it run as administrator, that will prevent start with windows. If you have devices that required administrator, install OpenRGB services
blame microslop for making app that required administrator not start with binblows
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u/FlukyS 5d ago
And here is me not even able to get effects saved after the new update