The G13 Configurator

What is this?

This is a stand-alone companion application and user space driver for configuring a Logitech G13 game board. The original code was based upon another driver originally written by ecraven, and available at https://github.com/ecraven/g13, but this codebase was modernized, cleaned up and totally rewritten in Python.

Using this tool allows you to:

• Graphically plan out a keymapping profile
• Save multiple profiles and switch between them at will
• Use the LCD with pluggable dbus-based applets to display useful information
• Switch profiles using the LCD

All wrapped up in a glorious Gtk 3.0 + libappindicator interface.

Please note: this is an early version of the application and as such it is still in heavy development, but the author uses it almost on a daily basis already to play most of her game library.

Building

We have a continuous build running to make packaging, and periodically those artifacts are brought over as releases on the Github site. The CI is run on June's personal infrastructure via a gitea mirror, so releases may lag behind a slight bit. June promises to redouble her efforts. :D

In general, though, g13gui is a python program, so no actual compilation takes place. All the Makefile and associated infrastructure do is assemble distro specific packages. If you want to skip the packaging (not recommended), it's entirely possible to run the program out of the source tree by doing the following:

[user@host g13gui]$ export PYTHONPATH=$PWD
[user@host g13gui]$ bin/g13gui &
[user@host g13gui]$ bin/g13-clock &
[user@host g13gui]$ bin/g13-profiles &

Note that you will have to manually install the udev rules file in etc/ to your appropriate distro-specific location.

Building a package

In the major distributions, it should just be possible to run make to build a package for your specific distro. As of this writing, there is support to build for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and Manjaro. Patches are welcome to help improve availability on other platforms.

Debian and Debian derivatives

First, setup your system with build tooling:

lupin:~$ sudo apt-get install devscripts python3 build-essential git-buildpackage appstream dh-sequence-python3 meson

Now you can build the package:

lupin:~/src/g13gui$ make