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Enhance The Experience of Logitech Keyboards and Mice on Linux

Just brought the Logitech Corded Wave keyboard, which is very comfortable and great (As long as one can ignore the ugly windows/internet explorer/msn messenger symbols printed on some of its keys).

The keyboard has many extra keys, like the function keys, a dedicated zoom in/out keys and more. The problem is that they don’t work on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 in my case) out of the box, which is a little sad.

Fortunately, I found a simple solution in the internet, and now I can use all the features of the keyboard. The following solution can be used for almost all models of Logitech keyboards and mice.

1. Go to HIDPoint’s download page.

2. Fill in your hardware details. You need to choose a keyboard an a mouse. If you have only one of them, you can choose the other arbitrarily.

3. Choose your OS, optionally fill in you Email address and check the Conditions of Use checkbox. Click download.

4. After you download the file, make it executable:

chmod +x hidpoint1-0.bin

(The actual file name might be slightly different)

5. Run the executble:

sudo ./hidpoint1-0.bin

6.  Follow the instructions in the installer.

7. Reboot your machine.

8. Done.  Now you should see a keyboard icon in the panel’s notification area. Right-Click it, Choose Mouse and Keyboard Settings, and you can customize the keys of your keyboard.

Enjoy

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