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trackmastersteve / alienfx

AlienFX is a CLI and GUI utility to control the lighting effects of your Alienware computer.
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Confusion using command line #61

Closed jimmiemaul closed 3 years ago

jimmiemaul commented 5 years ago

Hi - I'm excited to make use of this project but unsure of how to actually get the CLI commands to work, on my Alienware M11x R2

I'm running Debian Stretch and have successfully followed the installation guide, and can call "alienfx --help" and get an output.

I've run alienfx -z and performed a zonescan successfully, but I'm unsure how to actually use the zone codes that are output. I can also see a config file for my model of machine in .config\alienfx\ but I'm not sure how to actually load it, or where to place the file for the application to be able to see it.

Any assistance you may be able to provide is greatly appreciated - it may be that I'm missing something fundamental, or perhaps the installation has not quite worked correctly (for instance, there are no themes available when opening the GTK version, but I'm not sure if there are supposed to be)

Thanks

Zones for the M11XR2:

These are your 6 zonecodes for the current controller ("VID: 0x187c / DEV: 0x0514"):
alien head: 0x2000
alienware logo: 0x0100
wifi: 0x0800
left vent: 0x0020
keyboard: 0x0001
right vent: 0x0040

James

jimmiemaul commented 5 years ago

Never mind, kept going at it and ended up figuring out that if i ran alienfx-gtk as root, I could set the regions I wanted to edit through the GUI.

Apologies and feel free to delete this non issue.

Thanks very much for developing this tool, I really didn't want to install Windows for ONE application.