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milgner / k290-fnkeyctl

Configures the behaviour of the F-keys on the Logitech K290
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More details in README #11

Closed hijarian closed 9 years ago

hijarian commented 9 years ago

Three issues.

  1. You are amazing for solving such a precise, small-scale pain point and publishing it. Seriously. GitHub doesn't have place to put praises into, so I am writing it as an issue.
  2. Sorry for not being a diehard coder who always looks into the sources of the solutions presented for him, but it would be nice to clean up the contradiction in the README: you mention that clang is required for compiling your binary, but clang invocation is commented out in build.sh, and g++ (from a totally separate package) is used instead. Please, either comment the g++ invocation instead or mention that one actually needs g++ in the README.
  3. It would be just great to mention that after the building and installing unplugging and plugging the keyboard back will probably help if nothing at all is happening. It was the issue for me, as everything just silently completed, all binaries were put into proper placed, even udev was completely restarted and nevertheless the behavior of f-keys was not changed. Only physical unplugging helped.

Also, I noticed the following more step-by-step instructions (for Debian, supposedly) in the Web, maybe they'll be helpful to write in README, too:

$ sudo apt-get install g++ libusb-1.0-0-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/milgner/k290-fnkeyctl
$ cd k290-fnkeyctl
$ g++ -std=c++11  k290_fnkeyctl.cpp -lusb-1.0 -o k290_fnkeyctl
$ sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 ./k290_fnkeyctl /usr/local/sbin
$ sudo install -o root -g root -m 0644 ./99-k290-config.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
$ sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input

Courtesy of: http://blog.tataranovich.com/2014/07/logitech-comfort-keyboard-k290.html

milgner commented 9 years ago

Thank you, both for the praise and the feedback! Also for linking the article - I added the udevadm commands to the readme for clarification along with a note to install libusb-1.0-0-dev on Debian-based systems.