- The Logi Options app is such a piece of crap. On macOS it also requires special permissions otherwise it won't even work.
If you only need to connect a device to the Bolt adapter you can use this web app by Logitech without having to install anything:
https://logiwebconnect.com/
- For posterity, I can very much recommend MacMousefix. It's $2.99 to own, totally worth it to me. Open source.
https://macmousefix.com/en/
Also available via brew:
brew install mac-mouse-fix
And on Github too:https://github.com/noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix
by flexagoon
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- For Linux users, there is Piper[1] based on their libratbag library[2], which supports the majority of mice
[1]: https://github.com/libratbag/piper/
[2]: https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag
by kstrauser
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- Very cool, thanks!
In a similar vein, I've been using SteerMouse (https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/) in the same way for many years, for the same reasons. Logi's hardware is nice, but their software just freaking sucks the electrons out of a battery. It's awful. I refuse to run their driver aka mini-OS just to do the right thing when I click a button with my thumb.
- Thank you. I’m constantly baffled by the terrible quality of Logitech’s software. Such great hardware and such horrible software. Very much needed an oss alternative.
- BetterTouchTool has also recently added full Logitech support (keyboard & mouse) and it has been working great for me. (Fully replaces the Logitech Options+ and/or Ghub apps).
Especially the smooth scroll modifier available in BTT (not exclusive to Logitech mice) has helped me a lot, it transforms any mouses scroll events into trackpad like scrolling events that allow for e.g. page swipes, mail archive, scrolling in calendar etc. - things that usually only work with Magic Mouse or Apple Trackpads
- A full FOSS replacement is absolutely necessary now. Options+ gets noticably worse every 6 months. The latest thing now is that every time you open it, a pop-up 'View available offers' Ad shows which (of course) you can't disable. The bloat is ridiculous given they embedded a whole additional GUI framework (Flutter) just for that AI Prompt builder many people don't want.
- Mouser is an electronics supply company with a trademark.
by IciGerbax
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- Geeky biais I feel but when I see "Mouser" I just think about the electronic online store xD
- This is amazing. I like the Logitech mouse + kbd that I have but the Logi apps are crap. At some point (not too long ago) I had to run TWO Logi apps because the newer one didn't have support for my keyboard. Mind you, it's some MX artsy-fartsy with the volume knob, so it's not old hardware. Also the app was awful, the volume knob didn't work right away, then the volume would go up and down some 5 minutes later on its own. I'll gladly get rid of the Logi apps ASAP.
- Funny timing, I've been working on essentially the same thing for Razer mice on macOS. I started this project because the basilisk v3 hyperspeed has no native mac OS support, and no documented bluetooth protocol, so I packet captured and reverse engineered it.
https://github.com/gh123man/OpenSnek
by ComputerGuru
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- Open source is the only way to go.
Out-of-the-box, most Linux distributions automatically report the battery status on my (admittedly ancient) Performance MX and I get a desktop notification when the battery is running low so I can run and swap the rechargeables, but I've found no way to do that on Windows (even with Logitech software).
by create-username
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- How can I disable the horizontal wheel? Not the one between the regular buttons but the one on top of the thumb.
It’s useless for me but no piece of software acknowledges my neurosis
- Had the same updater burn 30% CPU on a Ryzen desktop last month. Traced it to the options+ auto-update service polling a dead CDN endpoint every 5s. Wrote a 20-line autohotkey script to remap the side buttons and uninstalled the whole suite. CPU went flat and the mouse still remembers DPI onboard.
- Great job. I had to disable that logi sw software on my Macbook because it was taking up a lot of cycles.
- > Mouser
For a second I thought you were talking about the developer Mouser, who wrote a bunch of fantastic tiny and portable utilities for Windows[1].
[1] https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser
- LinearMouse on macos is also good. With Mos
by solarkraft
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- No mention of smooth scrolling? But that’s the entire reason to buy a Logitech mouse!
If this actually works well, I’m happy to say goodbye to Logi Options with its weird-ass electron-AI-login bullshit (just let me use my mouse, WTF).
by vladvasiliu
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- > Connection Bluetooth (USB receiver also works for basic buttons)
Why is there a difference between the two? On my MX Master 3S, I find the scroll wheel is… weird on Linux if I connect it via BT. It works fine with its dongle.
Why does the transport have such an effect on what seem like HID functions?
- If someone counting how many people hate logi tech mouse software, count me in too. But oddly enough I like their mouse hardware, specially the trackball
- For a minute I had hope this would work on linux. I'm using Solaar and it kind of works but I haven't managed to make it per-application, also the UI and rule editor is the most cryptic thing ever.
by bigjay517
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- I find that Logi Options+ mostly just stays hidden and works. It does use more RAM than I'd like (125.8MB right now). When it does break it's disruptive, or they add some feature I don't want.
- AI Prompting (enabled by default)
- Auto update stuck wasting CPU cycles
- The recent certificate issue
I'd like to find a replacement because I am annoyed by it, but I have not found a replacement that matches ALL of the features I use from Options+.
I keep the default settings in Options+ but in my testing I can't match all the same behavior with the 3rd party solutions:
- Pointer acceleration
- Workspace switching speed
- Smooth scrolling speed / acceleration
Scrolling is usually my main problem where scrolling in one direction jumps in the wrong direction first before correcting. This is most noticeable when scrolling line by line.
I've tested all the 3rd party options mentioned here(with the exception of Mouser). Does anyone else have these problems with the 3rd party alternatives?
- An update to the Logitech software last year added a fast way to access some kind of Logitech AI, but made it so the combination of mouse and dongle I was using no longer worked together. It was kind of a parable for the whole industry lately.
- Currently only for MX Master 3S, for anyone with other Options-controlled mice getting their hopes up.
- The readme is right from ai. How much of the app was ai coded? Asking honestly.
- I usually work on several devices simultaneously, and having to lift, turn the mouse and press the button on the bottom to switch between devices has been a huge hurdle for me. Do you think we can achieve this device-switching mechanism, from within those 6 programmable keys instead? Or this is not possible?
by throwaway85825
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- Options+ is such trash. It still doesnt support changing input of the mouse when you change input of the keyboard.
- Mouser is where you buy ICs...
- This is pretty awesome - I have another Logitech mouse (the smaller, more pragmatic M720) and was looking for a way to ditch Logi Options+, which is insanely bloated for what it does. I suspect adapting this will take an hour or so with an LLM...
- Fyi, no Linux.
- FYI Logitech also offers an air gapped version of Options+ which cuts out a lot of the slop and telemetry in the normal version: https://prosupport.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/10991109278871...
If you have to use Options that's probably the way to go (if none of the third party options work for you).
- Is there anything like this for the Logitech keyboards (eg MX Keys Mini)? I want to remap some keys there too but don’t want to run Options+
by anonymous344
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- this needs to be make to all logitech sh1tware! g402, great mouse, but the app is running node and sending who knows what
- Nice! Is there a similar option for Logitech Webcams?
- I wonder if this or anything else can pair devices to the unifying receiver. That’s the only reason I ever use the Logitech app.
- Another alternative (apparently the Logi software is so bad that it spawned many of these): BetterMouse. It supports my MX Master 4 https://better-mouse.com/
- I dumped my Logitech MX Vertical mouse because of that lousy software.
This seems like a great idea.
by userbinator
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- Download → Mouser.zip (44 MB)
I smell LLM... and 44MB compressed for a mouse control panel applet (at least it's not an Electron app?) is still quite disturbing and a reminder of just how inefficient software has become.
- how is it that logitech software is such awful trash
- Logi software is so bad
by johnhamlin
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- So no Linux?
- The features I want are the macro builder from Razer, and chords.
- Missed opportunity to call it Jerry
- Nice project. Respect :)
I worry only how long it will be supported? I hope there will be small community maintaining it ;)
Once again nice project and good luck.
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