Can't close opened programs after install of Piper

Issues & Assistance
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Hello, I just installed the Piper app for my mouse and now I can’t close open programs. I can hover over the x on programs but when I click it doesn’t close, I can navigate with keyboard to system monitor to try and close from there nothing happend. I have tried to restart PC multiple times, same thing still happening.

Edit: Left and right click not working and cursor is moving but lagging.

had an system update almost right after, maybe that did it?

Stuff: Logitech G502 X Lightspeed

kernel Linux 6.19.9-1-cachyos

KDE plasma 6.6.3

Tell me if you need more and how to get it, I’m very new to all this.

2

piper is just a frontend to libratbag. And libratbag is a temporary service that closes after a short timer expires. The alternative to these is solaar which can be used to pair devices to a unify USB receiver as well as configure Logitech mice and keyboards to a limited extent.

You could try removing piper and libratbag and replacing with solaar, but I’m not sure if that is going to fix your issue. I, personally, have not had any issues with either libratbag or solaar when pairing / configuring my Logitech mice and keyboards.

3

I tried to navigate to repo tab on the package installer on keyboard but I can only get to popular applications and the search, I tried tab and arrow keys but can’t get to repo. How do I remove Piper then?

4

You can boot the CachyOS live installer and use arch-chroot to access your working CachyOS install and then remove / install packages there using pacman.

When in the live installer graphical environment, you will need to mount your drive partitions first before using arch-chroot:

/ to /mnt
/boot to /mnt/boot

Then use sudo arch-chroot /mnt to modify your installed CachyOS environment.

For example, to swap piper / libratbag with solaar use:

pacman -R piper libratbag
pacman -Sy solaar

The mounting order needs to be /mnt first and then /mnt/boot second (because it is a nested mount). You can use a GUI tool like GNOME Disks (gnome-disk-utility ), or whatever KDE’s equivalent is, to help you mount the partitions correctly.

5

All true, but I believe cachy-chroot is even easier to use

6

I still can’t use left or right click. Tried both wired and wireless, also in wireless mode the cursor is very laggy compared to wired.

7

I’d look through dmesg and see if there is anything that stands out. Could be you updated to a new kernel that is causing issues with your hardware. piper and libratbag don’t do anything unless you open Piper and configure your mouse. And even then, most mice, like my MX Master 2S, reset the DPI setting back to default when entering into its power saving mode (when not connected to charge)–meaning Logitech made the device state-less and without a way to save configuration to it directly. The Windows software probably works around this by being a background service that periodically restores the configured device state at each wakeup event. Dumb, but it is what it is.