tl;dr: unplug LIGHTSPEED receiver, plug in USB-C, press the LIGHTSPEED button
I bought a Logitech G PRO X TKL for photo editing today, hoping it’ll be easier to manage ergonomics with a graphics tablet if both my keyboard and tablet are wireless than the other way around.
The Logitech G PRO X TKL is a tri-mode gaming keyboard:
- wired, using USB-C
- wireless, using Bluetooth
- wireless, using Logitech LIGHTSPEED
Although it’s really a dual-mode gaming keyboard for me:
- wired, using USB-C
- wireless, using Bluetooth
wireless, using Logitech LIGHTSPEED
work bans LIGHTSPEED, for$REASONS, so I’m not going to use it.
I set up the wired connection in my home office, then set up Bluetooth to my personal laptop, then found that I was stuck on Bluetooth. No combination of unplugging and re-plugging the cable, or power cycling, or pressing the Bluetooth button, … got me back to a wired connection.
Some features don’t work over Bluetooth:
including programming custom lighting effects, so I really wanted to get back to wired. I contacted Logitech Support and they suggested turning off Bluetooth on my laptop. That didn’t work either; the keyboard kept trying to connect to my now-offline Bluetooth receiver.
Then I thought “maybe it’s the other button?” I pushed the LIGHTSPEED button and it flashed, as the keyboard searched for the unplugged LIGHTSPEED receiver. A few seconds later, it gave up and returned to wired mode.
