This is a fork of Tetz95 fork. Spirit of OSS and all that.
Primary difference is this version uses cmake.
This code was forked from Jim Gupta's code at https://code.google.com/p/linux-g13-driver/
I've forked this code because Google Code is deprecated and I don't want it lost. Since then, I've started playing with it a little bit (Mostly directory structure and semantic changes for use with git).
I haven't changed the fundamental code because I'm by no means a coder, but we'll see what happens from here. I'll eventually write a .service file for systemd and perhaps package it for the AUR. The service file should work with Ubuntu 15.04 and above.
I've tried this on 64-bit Arch Linux and it works so far. I haven't tried it in 64-bit Ubuntu but it should work there, too.
I'm having a hard time getting udev rules to work so this can run in user mode. It seems that /dev/uinput is in the kernel and loads before anything is writable and the file's permissions don't get modified.
libusb-1.0
For Ubuntu, it should be installed already but if you don't have it, you can get it by typing:
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0
For Arch Linux you can install it by typing
sudo pacman -S libusb
Java version 1.6 or higher
For Ubuntu, it can be installed by typing:
sudo apt-get install default-jre
For Arch it can be installed by typing:
sudo pacman -S jre8-openjdk
Download zip file from https://github.com/Tetz95/linux-g13-driver/tree/master/distros
Unzip into your favorite directory
Open a console (command prompt)
Go to the directory where you unzipped your download
type make
Run the config tool first! In a command prompt go to the directory where you unzipped your download and type:
java -jar Linux-G13-GUI.jar
This will bring up the UI and create the initial files needed for your driver.
All config files are saved in $(HOME)/.g13
Run the driver In a command prompt go to the directory where you unzipped your download and type:
sudo -E ./G13-Linux-Driver
The -E is to run it using your environment variables so it doesn't look for the .g13 directory in /root
If you want to run the command and then detach it so you can close the terminal:
sudo -E ./G13-Linux-Driver &
If you are configuring the application while the driver is running, the driver will not pick up changes unless you select a different bindings set or you can restart the driver.
The top 4 buttons under the LCD screen select the bindings.
The joystick currently only supports key mappings.