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Piper

Piper is a graphical user interface to configure gaming mice. Configuration options include changing the resolution (DPI) of the mouse, adding and removing profiles, setting LED colors and changing button behaviors.

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  • Linux
  • Flatpak
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  1.  Gaming-focused

Features

  1.  Adjusting DPI
  2.  Mouse Button Mapping
  3.  Key Mapping
  4.  Mouse Remapping

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  • SigridKroon reviewed Piper  

    Only works with some devices and it’s not clear why some are not is not all Steelseries implemented

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    Paul added Piper as alternative to OpenMouse
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    DonGeronimo7 added Piper as alternative to Mouse Control
  • the_Libre_one reviewed Piper  

    When I left Windows and moved to Linux, my Logitech G102 mouse was lined up in my drawer for a long time until I used Piper. It recognized the Logitech G102 without any problem. There are options to adjust the polling rate, DPI, and colors. Its design is not like the G-Hub program from Logitech it has a simple design and does not have a million options for color changing patterns, but it is more than enough. I often put a solid color and continue using it, but the most important thing (and this...

  • the_Libre_one liked Piper
  • Paul added Mouse Remapping as a feature to Piper
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    Paul added Piper as alternative to OpenLogi
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    Alonso Herrera added Piper as alternative to Solaar
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AlternativeTo Categories

OS & Utilities, Gaming Software, System & Hardware

GitHub repository

  •  6,010 Stars
  •  226 Forks
  •  225 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Piper, and it has gotten 10 likes

Piper was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on and this page was last updated .

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
the_Libre_one
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When I left Windows and moved to Linux, my Logitech G102 mouse was lined up in my drawer for a long time until I used Piper. It recognized the Logitech G102 without any problem. There are options to adjust the polling rate, DPI, and colors. Its design is not like the G-Hub program from Logitech it has a simple design and does not have a million options for color changing patterns, but it is more than enough. I often put a solid color and continue using it, but the most important thing (and this is what I did not know the first time I used it) the changes you make do not happen immediately like G-Hub. You must press the Apply button above on the right first. The nice thing is that it supports several mouses, including: 1-Logitech (the most supported) 2-Asus 3-Glorious 4-Steel Series 5-Mars Gaming 6-Nubwo 7-Etekcity 8-Roccat You can see the supported devices here : https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag/tree/master/data/devices

As I understand, you can add any mouse that meets several conditions, such as identifiers -or something like that- to this program if you understand programming, because Piper uses something called Openinput and Libratbag .. I am not a programmer and I do not understand programming. Correct me if I am wrong.

SigridKroon
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Only works with some devices and it’s not clear why some are not is not all Steelseries implemented

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What is Piper?

Piper is a graphical user interface to configure gaming mice. Configuration options include changing the resolution (DPI) of the mouse, adding and removing profiles, setting LED colors and changing button behaviors.

Piper requires libratbag’s ratbagd, the daemon to actually communicate with the mice. Piper is merely a front end to ratbagd, ratbagd must be installed and running when Piper is launched.