Piper and libratbag not working, missing evdev

Lahiri

Hello Solus community,

I'm trying to configure piper to map my mouse keys, but it doesn't detect my device.
Searching online I found that it could be a problem with libratbag, the backend for piper.
If i run ratbagctl list as suggested here, I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ratbagctl", line 24, in <module> import evdev ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'evdev'
So, it looks like the python package evdev is missing, however I do have python-evdev installed in the software center.
Also, if I run pip install evdev I get:

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: evdev in /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages (1.1.2)

I also have /usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/evdev btw.
Looking in the ratbagctl file, I see it also imports from gi.repository import Gio, GLib, GObject, but gi.repository is also missing in my python env, even if I have python-gobject installed.

I'm running out of options, any idea on how to make libratbag work and detect my mouse?

Thanks

JoshStrobl

I have piper and libratbag installed from the repo (package maintainer and Logitech G403 owner here) and it's working. Did you install it from the repo or build it from source from GitHub?

You also should not be installing from pip.

Lahiri

JoshStrobl I installed everything from the Solus repo.

JoshStrobl

If you have python-evdev from our repo installed, there is no reason why ratbagctl would not work. I checked via an strace and it stats files like /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/evdev/ff.py, which are owned by the python-evdev.

Lahiri

I found the problem, it was conda enabling it's base python environment by default.
Solved by running conda config --set auto_activate_base false

I still have issues with piper, but now I think it's only an app configuration thing.

Thanks