Pair Logitech Unifying Receiver Devices In Linux With Solaar

<div style="text-align: justify;">The Logitech Unifying receiver supports connecting up to six compatible wireless mice and keyboards however, only the device that comes with the receiver is already paired (and thus, only that device will work out of the box with the receiver).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Logitech provides a tool for pairing additional devices to the Unifying receiver but it's only <a href="http://www.logitech.com/en-us/support/unifying?section=downloads&crid=583">available</a> for Windows and Mac OSX so if you want to pair new devices or if you want to use a new receiver (in case you lose the old one for instance) and you're using Linux, you can use a third-party tool such as <i>Solaar</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7bi5iaKjlWEkihT0wMX7mZsQrj8UnR4dWPuS83mBd0YhzzC7f2MW7jb_W8-tXItjZxfhns3P3ixF43jMOJKLhBridO35hs2CnTQCyRtctcVeK0SkPWMQScWZCJclkeKr6z6O6802St00/s1600/solaar-logitech_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Solaar Logitech" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7bi5iaKjlWEkihT0wMX7mZsQrj8UnR4dWPuS83mBd0YhzzC7f2MW7jb_W8-tXItjZxfhns3P3ixF43jMOJKLhBridO35hs2CnTQCyRtctcVeK0SkPWMQScWZCJclkeKr6z6O6802St00/s320/solaar-logitech_2.png" title="Solaar Logitech" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/index.html">Solaar</a> is a Linux tool that allows you to manage <i>Logitech Unifying Receiver</i> mice and keyboards, that comes with both a GUI and command line interface.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The application can be used to pair / unpair Logitech devices to the Unifying receiver,</b> it can <b>display the battery status for most devices</b> and, for some peripherals, it supports some extra settings that aren't available through the standard Linux system configuration:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><i>K750 Solar Keyboard</i>: display the current lighting value (Lux);</li><li><i>K360, MK700, K750 </i>and <i>K800 </i>keyboards: toggle the FN key state;</li><li><i>Performance MX Mouse</i>: change the DPI;</li><li><i>M705 Marathon Mouse</i> and <i>M510 Wireless Mouse</i>: toggle smooth scrolling.</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPaFYBCBqTOjiQxNphoDZ7tIPnO2_uhW3Sn_BtSBumeMJQwSKy7313H-EqEf0TnwAL0NkWXKmKYrlZrYfJI0RH4JkyL3kb8SFBQYKEIQdCCqBzqZj42jmhAhMSto2yBGFzsr3arfIRy4/s1600/solaar-logitech.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Solaar Logitech" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPaFYBCBqTOjiQxNphoDZ7tIPnO2_uhW3Sn_BtSBumeMJQwSKy7313H-EqEf0TnwAL0NkWXKmKYrlZrYfJI0RH4JkyL3kb8SFBQYKEIQdCCqBzqZj42jmhAhMSto2yBGFzsr3arfIRy4/s320/solaar-logitech.png" title="Solaar Logitech" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Solaar</b> currently <b>supports all Logitech Unifying Receiver devices but only some newer Nano Receivers</b> are supported (USB ID: 046d:c52f, you can check that bu running "lsusb -d 046d:")</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Solaar in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Solaar can be install in Ubuntu through its official PPA. To add the PPA and install Solaar, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:daniel.pavel/solaar<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install solaar</code></pre>Once installed, open Solaar from the Dash / menu.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important note</b>: the first time I ran the application (GUI), it couldn't read the battery status for my Logitech M525 Wireless Mouse and I got a missing icon on the top panel. I've had to restart the application twice to get the panel (indicator) icon to show up and to get Solaar to display the battery status. So if you encounter this issue, try restarting the application.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Ubuntu, all the Solaar files are installed under <i>/opt</i> so if you want to use the command line tool, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/solaar/bin/solaar-cli --help</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">The command above should display all the available solaar-cli (the Solaar command line interface) options.</div><br /><b>Solaar is also available for <a href="http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/debian.html">Debian 7 or higher</a>, <a href="http://code.r3pek.org/gentoo-overlay/src">Gentoo</a>, <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/Solaar">OpenSUSE</a> and <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/solaar">Arch Linux</a>. The source code is available on <a href="https://github.com/pwr/Solaar">GitHub</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2013/07/12/pairing-the-logitech-performance-mx-and-others-to-the-unifying-receiver-in-gnulinux">Fabián Rodríguez</a></i></div>

Pair Logitech Unifying Receiver Devices In Linux With Solaar

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