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title: Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3
layout: default
created: 2009-02-09 17:50:56 +0100
updated: 2009-02-10 00:01:22 +0100
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tags:
- know-how
- hardware
- evoluent
- verticalmouse
- mouse
---
![Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3]({{ site.url }}/assets/vm3_sm.jpg)
* **Homepage:** [evoluent.com](http://www.evoluent.com/vm3.html)
Remapping buttons in Linux
==========================
You can use the following command to remap the buttons:
xinput set-button-map <device-id> <button1> <button2> <button3> ... <buttonN>
The `<device-id>` is shown in the `xinput list` output - you can use the name as a string or the id number. You can query the actual button state using `xinput query-state <device-id>`.
The mouse has following button-ids:
| Button | ID |
|:----------------------|:--:|
| Thumb button | 9 |
| Index finger button | 1 |
| Middle finger button | 8 |
| Ring finger button | 3 |
| Wheel button | 2 |
| Wheel up | 4 |
| Wheel down | 5 |
2015-02-22 01:17:33 +00:00
See [remapping mouse buttons]({% post_url 2010-01-07-remapping-mouse-buttons %}) on what buttons X11 recognizes.
According to this the default configuration (`xinput set-button-map <device-id> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9`) would give you middle click on the wheel button and right-click on the middle finger.
The ring finger button would be for special use as well as the thumb button.
I for myself prefer having the middle-button on the middle finger and the right-click on the ring finger.
So I mapped 8→3 and 3→2 and I also mapped 9→8 and 2→9 to have the wheel button and thumb button for special use in some programs which make use of additional buttons.
My final `xinput` line looks like this:
# input id: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
xinput set-button-map <device-id> 1 9 2 4 5 6 7 3 8
You could also map 9→6 and 2→7 to have the 2 additional buttons emulate *Wheel left* and *Wheel right*:
# input id: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
xinput set-button-map <device-id> 1 7 2 4 5 8 9 3 6