Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.
Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.
The only thing stopping me is I can’t figure out how to remap the side buttons on my razer MMO mouse in Linux.
Try Polychromatic
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Razer_peripherals
I have. That allows for control of lighting, but doesn’t do key mapping/profiles.
Have you tried this?
https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper
It’s the only thing that’s worked for my mouse. There’s also Piper if your mouse is supported.
libratbag and Piper don’t support my mouse (or any razer mice), unfortunately. I’ve also tried input remapper… couldn’t get it working right on Bazzite, but maybe I was just doing something very wrong. Will give it another try!
If it doesn’t work, you could try running Razer’s software through wine as well
I’ve been using input-remapper with my Naga for a long time, so it should work (Tumbleweed with Wayland). But the software is quite quirky and can be a bit of a pain to setup and learn. Hope you manage to figure it out!
I think I figured out the problem… It has onboard memory for one profile, whichever is selected in the UI. My default profile has a bunch of buttons mapped that do not register as key presses when booted into Linux, so input remapper doesn’t pick those up when the mouse button is pressed.
My solution was to create a profile that had all of the side buttons mapped as regular keyboard keys, and activate that profile before booting into Linux.
I remember it being a bit odd to set up. Worked quite well for me on my Logitech mouse a few years ago. But maybe the switch to Wayland has caused problems for it, who knows?
I have a Razer Naga Left-Handed Edition and I’ve just used input-remapper with success. might depend on if you’re on Wayland or X11. dunno, just worked for me.