I have been trying to get Solaar working in Slackware 14.1 it is an application to manage wireless keyboards and mice.

I have not a clue even reading all the stuff on the Solaar website how to install it properly in Slack.

https://pwr.github.io/Solaar/

this is what I get after installing several dependices.

bash-4.2# cd Solaar-0.9.2
bash-4.2# ls
COPYING ChangeLog README bin jekyll packaging rules.d share
COPYRIGHT MANIFEST.in README.md docs lib po setup.py tools
bash-4.2# cd bin
bash-4.2# ./solaar

(solaar:2539): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_new_for_path: assertion `path != NULL' failed
solaar: error: Argument 0 does not allow None as a value
bash-4.2#


Obviously I only unpacked it and tried to run it as I don't see any real way to actually install it.

Any ideas?

The keyboard and mouse work so that is probably not the problem

Well I was able to figure out how to install it.

There was a setup.py in the root directory.

SO setup.py build and setup.py install did that still get the same error.

the command line version works.

bash-4.2# solaar-cli show
Unifying Receiver [/dev/hidraw0:1D5B9758] with 2 devices
1: Wireless Mouse M310/M310t [M310/M310t:03E8C0B4]
2: K520 [K520:B34B4968]

so the problem must be with the KDE gui there was some post elsewhere about GTK theme and icon theme in the KDE control panel I am not sure how that is done and would rather not change the current way KDE looks

Does anyone know what the slackware version of these Debian/Ubuntu package names are ?

gir1.2-gtk-3.0
python-gi
python3-gi
gir1.2-notify-0.7
gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1

I also get this with the debug flag

bash-4.2# solaar -d
18:51:21,699 INFO [MainThread] root: language en_US (ISO8859-1), translations path None
18:51:21,704 INFO [MainThread] solaar.ui: application /io/github/pwr/solaar, registered True
18:51:21,729 WARNING [MainThread] solaar.ui.icons: failed to detect a known icon set

(solaar:1721): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_new_for_path: assertion `path != NULL' failed
solaar: error: Argument 0 does not allow None as a value

So this must be a problem with the icons

Solaar works perfectly under SlackWare 14.2 rc1

I hope 14.2 gets done soon

Not sure how to get this to work under 14.1

I upgraded KDE but that did not change anything. There should be a fix for this as it works on 14.2 rc1.

Any ideas where to look?

In current there is a battery monitor so in my case Solaar seems redundant. May install it anyway.

I just got it working in -current.

1. Use the setup.py file to install it. There's a SlackBuild template use can use to build a package. I used Python 3.

2. Copy the included "42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules" to /etc/udev/rules.d. If you're building a package, put it in the package.

3. Edit the rules file to uncomment the following line:
4. Install pyudev. This can also be easily built into a package. Just use the same version of Python that you used to install Solaar.

5. Set solaar to run when the GUI starts. In my case, I added "solaar &" to /etc/openbox/autostart.