This program can change the colors on your MSI steelseries keyboard. The keyboards have 3 regions that can have different colors for each one. Prerequisites (tested on Ubuntu 14.04 only): Qt 5.2 or later (Ubuntu includes Qt 5.2.1) libhidapi-dev libhidapi-libusb0 To build: qmake make Make sure to copy 99-msi.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d unless you want to run the program as root. Requires a reboot or maybe just a reload of udev rules to work correctly. To use: Usage: ./msi-keyboard [options] Keyboard color changer for MSI steelseries keyboards Options: -h, --help Displays this help. -v, --version Displays version information. -m, --mode set color mode: normal, gaming, breathe, demo, wave -c, --color set a color using the format: region,color,intensity Available regions: left middle right Available colors: off red orange yellow green sky blue purple white Available intensities: high medium low light Example: ./msi-keyboard -m normal -c left,red,high -c middle,purple,high -c right,sky,high Licensing: This program is licensed as 3-clause BSD, terms are available in the COPYING file. Based on a nodejs version of msi-keyboard by Steve Lacy of wearefractal.com: Copyright (c) 2013 | Steve Lacy slacy.me | Fractal wearefractal.com contact@wearefractal.com Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.