Switch your device on to pair it (you have thirty seconds to do so). The receiver is ready to pair a new device. Now switch off the device that you want to pair (if it was on) and execute your compiled program with the appropriate device as argument: This will show the names of your receiver, for example hidraw0. $ ls -l /sys/class/hidraw/hidraw*/device/driver | awk -F/ '/receiver/' To find the device that the receiver has, therefore take a look at the outputs of To disable autostart of Solaar, remove /etc/xdg/autostart/sktop.Ĭurrently, piper is not able to pair/manage devices for unifying receivers but libratbag does include a lur-command command line tool that is able to do this.

Pairing: turn your new device on (timing out in 20 seconds). Please turn your wireless device off and on to start pairing. ltunify, Solaar and libratbag can detect the receiver automatically.Įxamples on unpairing a device, pairing a new device and showing a list of all devices: Pairingtool can only be used for pairing and does not provide feedback, it also needs to know the device name for pairing. After that you will not need root permissions. After installation, runĪnd then replug reciever. The following packages use the plugdev user group, create it if it does not exist, and add users to this group to avoid the need of running these as root:ĭo not forget to relogin to apply user's group membership. libratbag is a configurable mice daemon that allows you to configure your devices, it has a GTK based graphical frontend app, piper. Solaar is a graphical Python program that integrates in your system tray and allows you to configure additional features of your input device such as swapping the functionality of Fn keys.

Ltunify is a command-line C program that can perform pairing, unpairing and listing of devices.

Pairing and unpairing on Linux is supported by a number of tools, listed thereafter: Logitech officially supports pairing of additional devices just through their Windows and macOS software. The input device that comes with the receiver is already paired with it and should work out of the box through plug and play. The Logitech Unifying Receiver is a wireless receiver using 2.4 GHz band radio communication that can connect up to six compatible wireless mice and keyboards to your computer.

Logitech keyboard commands