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I'm thinking about buying a Logitech G502 Spectrum (the G502 with RGB LEDs) but as I am running Linux (Speciified in Debian @ work, ubuntu @work and archlinux @home) I am woundering how to setup colors directly under a linux environment.

As far as I know from some review videos on youtube, it uses Logitech's default Gaming Software to acheive this under windows, but sadly as far as i remember there is no official software from logitech supporting linux.

So how do i change the rgb color under linux (well each distro). I would be fine with a shell script doing it :) - But I am NOT willing to setup a profile ander a windows environment.

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You can use Piper, which relies on libratbag.

Installing it is simple:

  • Fedora: dnf install piper

  • Arch: pacman -S piper

  • Ubuntu: add this PPA, and then install using sudo apt install piper

  • OpenSUSE: zypper install piper

Then you just configure your mouse via the gui!

I have a g502s myself, and as far as I can see everything works, even the LEDs!

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This answer might be too late but I am still answering anyway. As I know there is no software for linux. So what I do (and every body else) is that I use another computer that runs Windows to configure my mouse. The macros, lights are stored in the mouse so they can work anywhere(linux included).

What you can also do is used a virtual machine (running windows or mac) and do a usb pass through. I know the virtual machine can work (to configure the mouse) but never tested it.

Hope you find what I said useful. :)