Flatsonar

OpenRGB

by Adam Honse, OpenRGB Team

Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-2.0-or-later v1.0

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About

One of the biggest complaints about RGB is the software ecosystem surrounding it. Every manufacturer has their own app, their own brand, their own style. If you want to mix and match devices, you end up with a ton of conflicting, functionally identical apps competing for your background resources. On top of that, these apps are proprietary and Windows-only. Some even require online accounts. What if there was a way to control all of your RGB devices from a single app, on both Windows and Linux, without any nonsense? That is what OpenRGB sets out to achieve. One app to rule them all.

Features

- Set colors and select effect modes for a wide variety of RGB hardware - Save and load profiles - Control lighting from third party software using the OpenRGB SDK - Command line interface - Connect multiple instances of OpenRGB to synchronize lighting across multiple PCs - Can operate standalone or in a client/headless server configuration - View device information - No official/manufacturer software required - Graphical view of device LEDs makes creating custom patterns easy

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

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    publisher:flathub

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