I’d like to disable or change the super bright blue light on this mouse (awesome mouse btw, I love mountain but they seem to have stopped selling. can only find these on ebay).

I’d like to be able to do this on Mint. Any software that may be compatible? Guessing wine will not do it.

Update, I got pass through working on my win11 in virtual box, Basecamp detected the mouse, but it said I had to update firmware before I could do anything. I did that and now of course the mouse is in failsafe mode, it works but the lights flash and no buttons other than the right and left click work. Its now seen as a different device so I changed the pass through to it, now Basecamp is not seeing it. I may have to boot to windows and try to fix it.

  • tal@olio.cafe
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    3 days ago

    I’m not familiar with the software situation there, but on the hardware side, if you don’t mind permanently disabling it, you can probably just open it up, find the LED, and snip the lead that runs to it. Or, if you don’t mind soldering, swapping in LEDs is possible. I once swapped an infrared LED in on a trackball that used a translucent ball and a red LED when I used the thing in a dark room.

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      3 days ago

      I’d be down to do that except taking apart mice always ruins them, since they put the damn screws under the slider pads every time, infuriating!