Nintendo Switch Joycon not recognized

[joelostblom]

I am trying to use a Nintendo Switch Joycon as a mouse/pointer for my laptop (via either the joystick or motion controls), since it would be convenient to not have to stand next to my computer when giving presentations. The Joycon is recognized by my laptop's bluetooth interface, connects fine and show up as "JoyCon (R)" in the list of bluetooth drivers. However, when I launch antimicrox, it says that "No joysticks are found"; I have tried clicking "update" and restart the program but to no avail.

I am on PopOS 21.10 (ubuntu derivative), and kernel 5.16.15 (so the joycon driver should be there). I use X11, not wayland. I installed antimicrox via the flatpack.

I feel like I am missing something obvious here, but I could not find any mention of Joycons in the issue tracker, which I guess means that they are either not supported or work fine out of the box for everyone else.

[joelostblom]

I got the JoyCons working as a mouse by following the advice in this answer::

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-joystick

and then rebooting. Both JoyCon joysticks work for controlling the mouse (and moving them together makes it move faster). The right JoyCon can use B for left click and X for right click. They are still not recognized by AntiMicroX though.