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Introduction

This guide describes how to obtain full functionality of the [http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2135,CONTENTID=10917 Logitech MX-610]. It is still a work in progress. Here, all commands to issue are in italics.

Volume Keys

No additional software is required to use the volume keys. All you need to do is use "Keyboard Shortcuts." The same can be said for the E-Mail button. Getting the IM button to function is a little bit more interesting...

Notification LEDs and their respective buttons

E-Mail

Bill Hard, a KDE developer, has been working on the notification LEDs since 3/7/2006. We will use his work.

  1. To start, download mx610hack-0.3.tar.gz [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2029 here].

  2. Extract the archive.

  3. Open a console and change the working directory to where you extracted the archive using the cd command.

  4. Compile using the usual ./configure, make, sudo make install procedure.

To gain an understanding of how to issue commands, issue the command mx610hack --help. To get the lights to work for a user, the device must be writable to him/her. To do so, you will need to modify permissions. To do this:

  1. Open the udev rules for editing: sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules.

  2. At the end, add the following line: KERNEL=="hiddev*",                      MODE="0666"

  3. Save and exit by pressing Ctrl+O, Enter (you're overwriting the file), and finally Ctrl+X

To make use of the light, you can either write a script to execute once you have new mail or install the "mail-notification" package by issuing the command sudo apt-get install mail-notification. Don't forget to turn it off somehow.

IM (for Gaim users)

According to this thread in [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168538 Ubuntu Forums], it is possible to get Gaim to cooperate with this mouse.

  1. Download the plugin source [http://koti.mbnet.fi/simom/gaim_en/mx610-notification.php here].

  2. Extract the package.
  3. Open a console and change the working directory to where you extracted the archive.

  4. Install the gaim-dev package: sudo apt-get install gaim-dev.

  5. Compile and install: make}} then {{{make install.

  6. Restart Gaim (if running) and enable the plugin via Tools -> Plugins

Caveats: The IM button toggles the buddy list if and only if the buddy list has focus. Furthermore, it is important to note that removal of the device will cause Gaim to become nonresponsive with 100% processor usage and will leave you no choice but to kill the process.

Side buttons

To be filled out

Finishing Up, Acknowledgments

You will need to restart udev: /etc/init.d/udev restart. This could cause things to go quirky, so you may want to consider restarting the whole computer altogether.

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