Alienfx on Ubuntu?
I'd Like to Be Able to Run Alien Fx on My Computer to Change the Lights on My Alienware Mx 14 R2. I See Several Links in a Google Search, but None of Them Seem...
I'd like to be able to run Alien FX on my computer to change the lights on my Alienware MX 14 R2. I see several links in a Google search, but none of them seem to work. This one looks promising, but it's only for newer models. This one looks like exactly what I want but it won't work for me--either because it's for an older version of Linux or it just only works with the original model of my computer and not the R2 one.
Has anyone seen any other Alien FX programs for Linux? Or does anyone think they could edit one of these to work with my computer? I know it'll be hard to answer this question since you basically need my exact computer to see if it will work.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Update: July 20 2019
A deleted answer below points out how AW13R3 is not supported. It appears that AlienFXLite and PyALienFX have both been abandoned for a number of years.
I've found a github page for AKBL (Alienware Keyboard Lights) to control Alienware Light Effects. AKBL was updated just 10 days ago:
Sadly I've had this AW17R3 laptop for almost two years but have never found time to "play with" the light effects. This new program AKBL looks promising as it's written in Python and does some cool thing such as change light colors depending on the weather outside.
Some cool ideas off the top of my head would be setting colors based on CPU%:
- <10%=green, 10-20%=blue, 20-30%=yellow, 30-4%0=orange, 40-50%=purple, 50+%=red.
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