{"id":32947,"date":"2020-11-11T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=32947"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:17:09","slug":"openrazer-2-9-released-with-new-razer-peripherals-support-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/openrazer-2-9-released-with-new-razer-peripherals-support-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenRazer 2.9 Released with New Razer Peripherals Support [PPA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/openrazer-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8833\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OpenRazer, open-source driver and user-space daemon to manage Razer peripherals on Linux, released version 2.9.0 a few days ago with new Razer devices support, improvements, and bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/openrazer\/openrazer\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">OpenRazer 2.9.0<\/a> added support for following new devices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Razer Atheris<\/li>\n<li>Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed<\/li>\n<li>Razer Blade 15 Advanced (2020)<\/li>\n<li>Razer Blade 15 Base (Early 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Razer Blade Stealth (Early 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Razer Cynosa Lite<\/li>\n<li>Razer Cynosa V2<\/li>\n<li>Razer DeathAdder 2000<\/li>\n<li>Razer Kraken Kitty Edition<\/li>\n<li>Razer Kraken Ultimate<\/li>\n<li>Razer Viper Miniv<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new release also adds read support for idle_time and low_battery_threshold, ability to configure the battery notification frequency, screensaver monitor support on Xfce, improved fake driver support, and more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32948\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32948\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/polychromatic-ubuntu.png\" alt=\"Polychromatic - OpenRazer GUI\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/polychromatic-ubuntu.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/polychromatic-ubuntu-450x283.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polychromatic &#8211; OpenRazer GUI<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How to Install OpenRazer 2.9.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>The software has <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~openrazer\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" target=\"_blank\">an official PPA<\/a> so far contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openrazer\/stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/openrazer-stable-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"133\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/openrazer-stable-focal.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/openrazer-stable-focal-450x100.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2. (Optional)<\/b> Also add Polychromatic PPA, if you fancy a graphical front-end, by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:polychromatic\/stable<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/polychromatic-ppa-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"133\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/polychromatic-ppa-focal.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/polychromatic-ppa-focal-450x100.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally refresh your system package cache and install the drivers and GUI tool via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install openrazer-meta polychromatic<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/apt-openrazer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/apt-openrazer.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/apt-openrazer-450x225.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, open polychromatic from your system application launcher and enjoy!<\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the drivers as well as the configuration tool, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --auto-remove openrazer-meta polychromatic<\/pre>\n<p>And open <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b>, navigate to <\/b>Other Software<\/b> tab to remove the PPAs. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenRazer, open-source driver and user-space daemon to manage Razer peripherals on Linux, released version 2.9.0 a few days ago with new Razer devices support, improvements, and bug-fixes. OpenRazer 2.9.0 added support for following new devices: Razer Atheris Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed Razer Blade 15 Advanced (2020) Razer Blade 15 Base (Early 2020) Razer Blade Stealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1689],"class_list":["post-32947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-razer-drivers-for-ubuntu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}