evtest (utility to monitor Linux input device events) evtest is a tool to print evdev kernel events. It reads directly from the kernel device and prints a device description and the events with the value and the symbolic name. It can be used to determine mice button bindings, keymaps for exotic keyboards. It is commonly used to debug issues with input devices in X.Org. Note: If your user is a member of the 'input' group, you should be able to use evtest without root privilege. Otherwise, use "su" or "sudo" to run it as root. Note: On the one of the SlackBuild author's systems, running evtest enables Numlock. Not a real problem, but it was surprising the first time it happened.