Hello linux gamers, I am a new linux gamer trying to learn stuff (big noob)
I am on EndeavourOS, and have mostly had a really easy time playing games through steam and lutris. One thing that has given me trouble is using config software for my peripherals.
I use an endgame gear OP1 8k v2 mouse and while it has worked really well for me just plug and play, I do kind wanna mess around with some settings like lift off distance or such. There seems to be no official config software on their site, but I did find an open-source tool someone made here: https://github.com/Creationsss/egctl
Only thing is, being a big noob, i’m having trouble installing it. I tried following the instructions written in the install section but I must be doing something wrong, when I try the command “egctl info” in the terminal i get a generic bash error command not found. Any tips ?
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As others have said, make sure it’s actually in your path
echo $PATHIf it’s not, move it to one of the directories, or run it explicitly from where it is. I just downloaded it. It saved to my
~/Downloadsfolder. I had tochmod +x egctl-linux-x86_64, then run it from a terminal with~/Downloads/egctl-linux-x86_64and it worked. Although I don’t have that mouse so “working” for me isError: device not found (VID:0x3367 PID:0x1978). is the mouse plugged in?yo ty so much! I never knew about path, thats really good to learn about tyty I got it working now :)
Glad to hear you got it working.
FWIW, Windows — assuming that that’s where you’re coming from — has a PATH environment variable too. It’s just less common to invoke things directly by executable name on Windows in 2026, or to modify it, so it doesn’t come up much. If you type
echo %PATH%in cmd.com on Windows, you’ll see something similar.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)#DOS,_OS/2,_and_Windows
It’s too late here to explain it, I should sleep, but what you have to do is this, search for these things if you dont understand sthg:
- Download the prebuilt binary
- make it executable, rename it, move it to your path
- install the udev rules
- restart your terminal, replug the mouse
It should work
yo ty! I didn’t know about adding it to path, thats what I was missing tyty
Where did you install it?
~~Since you are on an Arch based distro you should be able to install egctl from the aur: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/egctl-bin
I’m not that familiar with Endevour OS, but maybe you can do something like
yay -Syu egctl-bin~~The tool should be installed somewhere your path envkronment variable points to and then you’ll be able to execute it from your shell (terminal)
Edit: I linked the wrong tool, sorry. Thanks for pointing it out.
Thats a different program on aur, not what op wants
