X1 Control Panel Experimental Linux Version
Disclaimer:
Linux
is not an officially supported platform. This release is experimental, so comes with no guarantee that it will work on your
system, or that it will receive further updates.
This
release has not gone through full production testing on any distro (let
alone all of them), so will undoubtedly also include some interesting
bugs I didn't notice. The
worst case I can envisage for these is temporarily locking up the mouse,
or the Control Panel corrupting its own configuration. So I recommend
exporting backups every now and then. But I must
also warn that you use it at your own risk.
Limitations:
- No firmware updates for Z1, Z2, Tracer, and Creator.
- Mouse firmware updates for these devices will need to be performed using Windows or macOS (downloads here).
- No installer.
- New
versions will be downloaded automatically when available. But accepting
the update will just exit the X1 Control Panel and open the archive
containing the new version.
- No Linux specific pre-made profiles or action libraries.
- The
included pre-made profiles and action libraries are unchanged from the
Windows versions. So some actions may not work on the Linux versions of
that software (if Linux versions even exist).
- Will not launch automatically on system boot.
-
Saving profiles to your mouses flash memory mostly eliminates the
downside of this. But the app will need to be launched for auto profile
switching.
- Keyboard input recorder cannot capture some shortcuts.
- Any shortcut which switches focus away from the Control Panel (e.g. Alt-Tab) cannot be directly recorded.
- These
shortcuts can still be added to the mouse, but they will need to be
created manually in Expert Mode; or created partially with the keyboard
recorder, then edited to complete the shortcut.
Download:
X1 Version: 3.1.0.0
Current Version Details
Supported Firmware:
- Z3 Firmware V90
- Z Firmware V208
Linux Specific Changes:
- App detection updated for various session types and compositors.
- Now using hidapi-hidraw for mouse detection and comms.
- These
changes require new udev rules for the X1 to detect your mouse. So make
sure to apply the updated udev rules as covered above.
Full Changelog: X1 Beta Changelog
Previous versions
Version | Linux specific Notes | Firmware |
| Z: 208 Z3: 090 | |
See changelog | FW208 | |
See Beta changelog | FW205 | |
See Beta changelog | FW205 | |
See Beta changelog | FW204 | |
Fully disables foreground app detection when auto switching is disabled instead of just ignoring it. | FW204 | |
| See Beta changelog | FW204 | |
See changelog | FW204 | |
See Beta changelog | FW204 | |
Adjustments to app update support (may work on more systems now, but still needs more work ). See Beta changelog for other general changes | FW203 | |
Added correct translations files. Added partial app update support. See Beta changelog for other general changes | FW203 | |
See Beta changelog | FW203 | |
See Beta changelog | FW202 | |
| 3.0.4.22 | Resolved issue that was preventing app exit. | FW202 |
Improvements to app linking. | FW202 | |
See Beta changelog | FW202 | |
Adds app detection for auto profile switching. | FW202 | |
Initial Release. | FW202 |
Setup:
The
Control Panel should run without any further setup after extracting it.
However, it may not be able to communicate with your mouse before
being given explicit permission on your system. So if your mouse is not
detected copy the included '60-Swiftpoint.rules' file into the
'/etc/udev/rules.d' directory, then reload the UDEV rules.
Running the three commands below from the extracted Control Panel directory will do this for you.
- sudo cp 60-Swiftpoint.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
- sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
- sudo udevadm trigger
SteamOS Note
SteamOS users may need to disable read-only mode to update these rules. This requires two extra commands as shown below.
- sudo steamos-readonly disable
- sudo mv 60-Swiftpoint.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
- sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
- sudo udevadm trigger
- sudo steamos-readonly enable
If the mouse is still not detected by the X1, try unplugging and reconnecting it.
Reporting Issues:
This
Linux release has not been thoroughly tested, so I do expect there to
be other issues. If you run into any please do let us know via this Beta forum, or a ticket.
But be aware that as Linux is not officially supported I generally wont
be able to troubleshoot the issue with you. Instead I will just be
monitoring issue reports more passively and solving what issues I can
when time allows.
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