GS63VR Wave mode doesn't work

[AbsyntheSyne]

Wave mode doesn't work. It used to work previously, I don't remember what commit. I type in sudo msiklm wave and it does nothing.

[Gibtnix]

Did you try the current version from the repo? A few days ago I merged a PR as there was a small bug related to the wave mode (!= sign instead of ==), if your version is not up-to-date, it is likely to be the reason. The current version's wave mode definitely works on my side.

[AbsyntheSyne]

Yes I do. It refuses to work for me, even if I do a direct path sudo /usr/local/bin/msiklm wave it doesn't work.

[Gibtnix]

Strange... could you please try all of the following commands if any works (there are different ways how the program works, so maybe please try all three)

• sudo msiklm green wave
• sudo msiklm green,blue,red high wave
• sudo msiklm green high wave

If none of these work, I'll prepare a special version for you to try to locate the problem.

[AbsyntheSyne]

• no

• yes

• yes

although doing sudo msiklm red,green,blue high wave doesn't do anything. This is normally what I do.

edit: red,blue,green seems to work fine, however.

[Gibtnix]

First it seems that explicitly supplying the brightness 'high' is important. Internally the default value is 'rgb' such that the rgb-color setting is used (cf. set_color() in msiklm.c), you can switch this to predefined colors by using low, medium or high instead. So the latter two commands I asked you to test are especially interesting as they use the explicit brightness (and thus, are switching to predefined mode) and it seems to work so far. So I would conclude that your keyboard requires to use the predefined color mode.

But I cannot explain why 'sudo msiklm red,green,blue high wave' does not work while 'sudo msiklm red,blue,green high wave' does - the commands are equivalent with respect to mode setting as long as you explicitly supply 'high' brightness. Color parsing also works, I verified this once more.

[AbsyntheSyne]

Yeah I don't know what's up, but it's really confusing. Any ideas why this is happening?

[Gibtnix]

Maybe you could try to first set the colors (either using rgb or predefined mode - i.e. with or without brightness argument) first and then use a second call that only sets the mode... at least would be worth a try I think...