config: revert quirk for the Evoluent Vertical Mouse

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 11:12:11 PDT 2014


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. 

> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> 
> ---
> config/10-quirks.conf | 16 --------------
>  1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/config/10-quirks.conf b/config/10-quirks.conf
> index c9b823c..47907d8 100644
> --- a/config/10-quirks.conf
> +++ b/config/10-quirks.conf
> @@ -19,22 +19,6 @@ Section "InputClass"
>          Option "IgnoreRelativeAxes" "off"
>  EndSection
>  
> -# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612140
> -# please make Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 work out of the box
> -# Button mapping on this mouse is quirky
> -Section "InputClass"
> -	Identifier "Evoluent VerticalMouse 3"
> -        MatchProduct "Evoluent VerticalMouse 3"
> -        # Sets following configuration:
> -        # top button:    left
> -        # middle button: middle
> -        # bottom button: right
> -        # wheel click:   middle
> -        # thumb button:  8 (back)
> -	Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 2 4 5 6 7 3 8"
> -EndSection
> -
> -
>  # https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55867
>  # Bug 55867 - Doesn't know how to tag XI_TRACKBALL
>  Section "InputClass"

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry


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