HOWTO: Install basic G15Tools support for the Logitech G15

[Bertrand Russel]

I installed g15daemon but my alt-tab key still doesn't work. Nor does my <esc> key. How do I fix this?

[Spartan.II.117]

Hi.

did you run lcdprocs ./configure with the --enable-driver=g15 option?
if yes check if you have libg15render installed correctly.
i had to copy the g15.so from server/drivers/g15.so manually to the directory specified in the config file.

not after killing the process no, but i had before and the process worked, then i did sudo killall LCDd and it wouldent come back that's when it gave me that message, so i restarted and still got that measage then i did make install in the lcd proc folder and still got the message and then i re configured and re installed but am now scared to restart my computer because i'll have to re-install all over. any ideas?

also when my computer starts the lcd goes blank but does not show the clock untill i run sudo g15daemon, i modified the visudo according to the instructions above (including using my own username) so i'm not sure what to do about that (i suspect they are related and fixing this problem will cause LCDd to start cleanly on boot)

[Bertrand Russel]

Why hasn't the g15 keyboard been included in synaptic? It seems like all the parts needed for inclusion are here yet this painful manual process is still confusing most of us. Can't some ubuntu deity take 10 minutes and make it right?

[Aneurysm9]

I wholeheartedly agree that the g15tools should be included in the repository. They're already in the Gentoo tree and the build infrastructure is there for Ubuntu/Debian. I'm not sure how the process works for Ubuntu though. There's a proposal on the Launchpad site https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubu...yboard-drivers for including them, but it doesn't seem to have received any attention. Perhaps it's a "squeeky wheel gets the grease" kind of thing and the user community needs to start sqeeking!

[Aneurysm9]

Spartan,

Did you edit /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf, or wherever it is on your system? You need to specify the full path to the directory where the drivers are stored.

[Spartan.II.117]

how do i find out the path where the drivers are stored? and why does it work right after a make install but not after that.

[TeeEff]

Hi every ones,

I'm a beginner on Ubuntu and perl script and I would like to write perl script to manage the G15 lcd screen.
After writing

sudo nohup g15composer ~/g15lcd
echo 'TL "Hello" "World"' > ~/g15lcd

Hello \n World is write on the lcd screen.

Then I call this perl script :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use DateTime;

my $user = "$ENV{USER}";

print "TL \"Hello $user\"\n";
sleep 2;

print "TL \"\" \"Bye $user\"\n";
sleep 2;
exit 0;

with perl g15-perl.pl
TL "Hello teeeff"
TL "" "Bye teeeff"
is write on the console with 2 sec between the 2 lines .

but when I call perl g15-perl.pl > ~/g15lcd
The 2 lines are written on the lcd screen only at the end of the script.

I would like to write script to display the time on the LCD screen with a while 1 loop with a sleep 1 but that don't seem to works.
Any idee ?

[Aneurysm9]

The better approach would be to have perl print directly to the g15lcd pipe. Check out the Amarok example script that comes with g15composer for functioning examples, but basically it's:

open(PIPE, ">>$pipe");
print PIPE "TL \"Hello $ENV{USER}\"\n";

obviously $pipe needs to be set to the path to the pipe where g15composer is listening.

[Spartan.II.117]

can anyone tell me where they found the g15 drivers after make install? i dont know where to look for server/drivers/.

[TeeEff]

The better approach would be to have perl print directly to the g15lcd pipe. Check out the Amarok example script that comes with g15composer for functioning examples, but basically it's:

open(PIPE, ">>$pipe");
print PIPE "TL \"Hello $ENV{USER}\"\n";

obviously $pipe needs to be set to the path to the pipe where g15composer is listening.

Thank's Aneurysm9 but it's the same
See my new script :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $user = "$ENV{USER}";
my $pipe = "$ENV{HOME}/g15lcd";
open(PIPE, ">>$pipe");

print "Hello $user\n";
print PIPE "TL \"Hello $user\"\n";
sleep 2;

print "Bye $user\n";
print PIPE "TL \"\" \"Bye $user\"\n";

sleep 2;

close(PIPE);
exit 0;

When I start it ( perl g15-perl.pl), Hello teeeff is displayed in the console then 2 sec after Bye teeeff and 2 sec after I take back control of the console and the 2 lines are displayed on the lcd only at this moment. It's like if g15composer don't run during the perl script.

I'm starting g15composer like this :

sudo nohup g15composer ~/g15lcd &

on the same console
What's wrong ?