A colleague recently bought a Roccat Suora FX keyboard. It is a nice keyboard... except that it displays unbearable rainbow waves by default:
This is configurable... but, of course, only on Windows. So I helped him and wrote, suorafxctl, a small tool to configure the keyboard:
➡️ https://github.com/flozz/suorafxctl
Installing suorafxctl
First, you will have to install libusb1. On Debian and Ubuntu, this can be achieved with:
sudo apt install python3-libusb1 git
Then install suorafxctl using pip:
sudo pip install suorafxctl
You can now run suorafxctl as root:
sudo suorafxctl -h
Configuring udev
If you do not want to run suorafxctl as root, you must configure udev to allow a standard user to configure the keyboard.
First create the /etc/udev/rules.d/99-roccat-suora-fx.rules with the following content:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e7d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3246", MODE="0666"
Then force udev to update its settings:
sudo udevadm trigger
Finally, unplug / replug the keyboard to apply the changes.
Using suorafxctl
Suorafxctl is a simple CLI tool:
For example, if you want to display a static, not too bright, blue color on the keyboard, you can use the following command:
suorafxctl --effect full-lit --brightness 25 --color blue
Read more
If you want to read more about suorafxctl, I wrote an article (in French) on my blog:
I hop this tool will be useful to you! 😉️