config: revert quirk for the Evoluent Vertical Mouse

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed Oct 29 16:49:01 PDT 2014


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:36:32AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Friday, October 10, 2014 11:12:11 AM Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:54:40PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > This quick makes the mouse behaviour more obvious (LMR buttons generate
> > > LMR
> > > 
> > > events) but goes against the manufacturer's intended defaults:
> > >     Top button - left click.
> > >     Wheel button - .middle click (e.g., for pan and rotate in CAD
> > >     programs).
> > >     Middle button - right click.
> > >     Bottom button - back.
> > >     Thumb button - forward.
> > > 
> > > from http://www.evoluent.com/vm3.html
> > 
> > For what it worth I think the current mapping is correct. Manufacturer's
> > recommendations are geared towards Windows set up where middle click is not
> > normally used, whereas in Linux it is extremely useful.
> 
> FWIW here is what the hardware reports for version 4 of the mouse:
> 
> topmost on right size - BTN_LEFT
> middle on the right side - BTN_MIDDLE
> wheel click - BTN_EXTRA
> lowest on the right side - BTN_RIGHT
> top on the left side - BTN_SIDE
> bottom on the left side - BTN_FORWARD
> 
> so it seems that manufacturer itself decided to change the default mapping
> in newer version.

thanks for pointing that out. I think I'm going to leave the revert in
place though, simply because there's manufacturer documentation on what the
intended mapping is. I'm glad they switched for V4 of the device though...

Cheers,
   Peter



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