A CLI and GUI utility to control the lighting effects of your Alienware computer
AlienFX
At present there is a CLI version (alienfx) and a gtk GUI version (alienfx-gtk). And has been tested on Debian/Ubuntu/Kali/Mint, Fedora and Arch Linux.
Dependencies
AlienFX is written in python and has been tested on python 3.9. It requires
the following python packages to run:
On Arch Linux:
$ sudo pacman -S python-pyusb python-setuptools python-gobject python-cairo python-future
On other distributions you need to install pyusb and pkg_resources using pip:
-
pkg_resources.
You can installpkg_resourcesusing the following command:$ pip install setuptools -
pyusb >= 1.0.0b1.
Note that your distribution may only providethe pre-1.0version ofpyusb. If
this is the case, you can installpyusb 1.0using the
following command:$ pip install --pre pyusb