X1 Control Panel Experimental Linux Version

X1 Control Panel Experimental Linux Version

Disclaimer:

Alert
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:

  1. No firmware updates for Z1, Z2, Tracer, and Creator.
    1. Mouse firmware updates for these devices will need to be performed using Windows or macOS (downloads here).
  2. No installer.
    1. 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.
  3. No Linux specific pre-made profiles or action libraries.
    1. 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).
  4. Will not launch automatically on system boot.
    1. Profiles are automatically saved to your mouses flash memory, so all of your custom configuration will still function without the X1 running. But it does need to be launched for auto profile switching.

Download:

X1 Version: 3.1.2.0

Current Version Details
Full Changelog:

Linux Specific Changes:
  1. Allow recording of system keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Alt-Tab).
    1. This change requires new udev rules for the X1 to intercept all keyboard events during keyboard recording. So make sure to apply the updated udev rules as covered below. 
  2. Now using hidapi-hidraw for mouse detection and comms.
    1. This changes also requires the new udev rules
  3. App detection improved for various session types and compositors.
  4. Updated SSL libraries for software updates on Linux.
Supported Firmware:
  1. Z3 Firmware V97
  2. SwiftLink Receiver Firmware V93
  3. Z Firmware V208

Previous versions
Version
Linux specific Notes
Firmware
FW208 
Fully disables foreground app detection when auto switching is disabled instead of just ignoring it.
See changelog for other general changes
FW205
FW204
Adjustments to app update support (may work on more systems now, but still needs more work ).
Added correct translations files.
Added partial app update support.
See changelog for other general changes
FW203
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.
  1. sudo cp 60-Swiftpoint.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
  2. sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
  3. 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.
  1. sudo steamos-readonly disable
  2. sudo mv 60-Swiftpoint.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
  3. sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
  4. sudo udevadm trigger
  5. 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.