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Aqualung

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[SOLVED] Installing Solaar under GNOME and Wayland

Is there a quick tutorial anywhere on installing Solaar under GNOME and Wayland in Archlinux? Apparently simply installing the solaar package is not enough, as there's a host of other (sparsely and confusingly documented) actions that need to be undertaken in order to make it work. Can anyone please jot down a clear sequence of actions that need to be taken in this regard?

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Solaar under GNOME and Wayland

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Logite … stallation ?

Aqualung

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Solaar under GNOME and Wayland

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Logite … stallation ?

Thanks. Sadly, that is not enough. After some research and trial and error, the algorithm is:
1. Install the solaar and libayatana-appindicator packages;
2. Copy this file into /etc/udev/rules.d;
3. Run sudo udevadm control --reload-rules or, better, reboot.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Solaar under GNOME and Wayland

those rules are already setup by the solaar package itself there's no reason to copy that manually. the appindicator dependency is optional and relevantly declared when installing solaar.

If you consider this [SOLVED] please mark it as such by editing the title in your first post.

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Aqualung

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Solaar under GNOME and Wayland

those rules are already setup by the solaar package itself there's no reason to copy that manually.

That is not my experience.

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Solaar under GNOME and Wayland

those rules are already setup by the solaar package itself there's no reason to copy that manually.

That is not my experience.

And yet https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … =heads#L61