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title: Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3
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layout: default
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created: 2009-02-09 17:50:56 +0100
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updated: 2009-02-09 17:55:53 +0100
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toc: false
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tags:
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- know-how
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- hardware
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- evoluent
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- verticalmouse
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- mouse
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![Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3]({{ site.url }}/assets/vm3_sm.jpg)
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* **Homepage:** [evoluent.com](http://www.evoluent.com/vm3.html)
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Remapping buttons in Linux
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==========================
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You can use the following command to remap the buttons:
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xinput set-button-map <device-id> <button1> <button2> <button3> ... <buttonN>
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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>`.
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The mouse has following button-ids:
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| Button | ID |
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| Thumb button | 9 |
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| Index finger button | 1 |
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| Middle finger button | 8 |
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| Ring finger button | 3 |
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| Wheel button | 2 |
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| Wheel up | 4 |
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| Wheel down | 5 |
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See [remapping mouse buttons]({% post_url 2009-07-17-remapping-mouse-buttons %}) on what buttons X11 recognizes.
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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.
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The ring finger button would be for special use as well as the thumb button.
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I for myself prefer having the middle-button on the middle finger and the right-click on the ring finger.
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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.
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My final `xinput` line looks like this:
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# input id: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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xinput set-button-map <device-id> 1 9 2 4 5 6 7 3 8
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You could also map 9→6 and 2→7 to have the 2 additional buttons emulate *Wheel left* and *Wheel right*:
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# input id: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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xinput set-button-map <device-id> 1 7 2 4 5 8 9 3 6
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