[UbuntuGnome] corsair void wireless headset causes 16.04 (any version) GUI to lock up

Hello, I've been trying both Ubuntu Gnome and Kubuntu 16.04 and I've really enjoyed both, they are really very refined compared with earlier versions. I could very well do most of my computing on these except that at night I use my wireless corsair headphones and when I have these plugged in, the GUI locks up randomly so that I caot switch windows or move them. The top panel does not respond either. ALT+F4-ing all windows back to the desktop unfreezes the top panel (haven't tried this in Kubuntu, but I guess that would work there too.) I did google this and it is a known issue with the mouse and the headset conflicting (though it also seems to make the window switcher not respond to the Win-key.) I tried one fix I found involving making a xorg.config file that tells the mouse to ignore the headphones (link: https://www.c0urier.net/2016/corsair...-rgb-linux-fun) and added it to /usr/share/xorg.config.d/ but it did not solve the issue. Another supposed solution found here: http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=153831 tells involves something called 'mkinitcpio,' which as far as I can tell is not in Ubuntu.

Any ideas on how to solve this or make the fixes I found work? Really appreciate any help getting this solved.