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dean36963

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 4

New G15 LCD programs

I don't know if this is the right place for this but here goes:

I have a few programs I have made that display on the LCD screen of logitech keyboards (using g15daemon-svn AUR package).

I was wondering if anyone with a G15 keyboard (or a similar, mine is a G510) was interested in these programs.

The two main ones are:

    - An RSS reader which displays the 5 most recent feeds and cycles through different RSS channels every so often.

    - A program displaying time (both digital and an analogue clock) as well as the date.

It doesn't look like anything else in the AUR does this, so I was wondering if it was worth packaging. But if no-one is interested then I won't.

egeerardyn

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2012-01-04

Posts: 2

Re: New G15 LCD programs

I'm certainly interested, have an G510 as well. Do you have yours working reliably? The last time I checked (which was in Ubuntu a few months back), the support was really buggy for the G510.

dean36963

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 4

Re: New G15 LCD programs

My G510 keyboard isn't working very well, the LCD screen is the only thing that works exactly how I want it to. The 'G' keys do not work and just seem to mimic the normal function keys. I posted here, wondering if anyone else had much luck with the G510 on arch, but no one has replied yet.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132502

Ok I will look into packaging the programs into the AUR, I have never packaged before and I am quite busy at the moment, so I'm not sure when I will finish it.

If you want to have a look at the program that displays the time and date, you can get it from my git page and compile it yourself. It's pretty much finished.
https://github.com/dean36963/g15date

As for the other programs, they might take a while before I am happy with them: the RSS reader has crashed on me a few times. I'm also working on a program that displays any updates for pacman, but that might take a little time as well.

EDIT:

Both g15date-svn and g15rss-svn are now on the AUR.
Here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55744
and here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55795

Last edited by dean36963 (2012-01-14 19:01:22)