On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 12:43:26 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2017 11:50:30 David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not > > > all, the the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean? > > > > > > I took that to mean that it could work for both their (logitech's) > > > keyboards or mice, possibly at the same time so that it might be > > > usable for both at the same time, thereby saving a usb2 socket. > > > > > > Testing that theory got that idea squashed, so what exactly does > > > that word unifying mean? > > > > AFAIK you need windows for running the Logitech application > > that does the unifying. You can do it anywhere that you can > > take your devices if you don't have windows. Yes, you save > > a USB socket. > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > Thanks David. This is not a function available in one of the bluetooth > tool kits?
AIUI it's not bluetooth. solaar is new since I bought these devices, hence my ignorance. But do you not run jessie or later on *any* of your machines? The unification resides in the dongle, not the PC, so as I said it doesn't matter where you do it. Cheers, David.
