Open a terminal and run this command (via AskUbuntu): Grab the keystrokes that we'll later send using a mouse button (skip if you want to bind a command / script / program to a mouse button) In this example, the button code we'll need later is 8.ģ.
After pressing the button you should see its code in the terminal where you ran xev, e.g.: Now press the mouse button for which you want to grab the code. Next, focus the small window that pops up and watch the terminal output. To get the mouse button code(s), run this command:
On other Linux distributions you'll have to search in the repositories for xdotool, xev and xbindkeys and install them.
Arch Linux or Manjaro: sudo pacman -S xbindkeys xorg-xev xdotool. openSUSE: sudo zypper install xbindkeys xev xdotool. 
Fedora: sudo dnf install xbindkeys xorg-x11-utils xdotool. Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Elementary OS and other Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distributions: sudo apt install xbindkeys x11-utils xdotool. In case you don't need to bind mouse buttons to keyboard keys, and all you want to bind to the mouse buttons are programs, commands or scripts, you can skip the installation of xdotool. xdotool: command-line X11 automation tool that lets you programmatically (or manually) simulate keyboard input and mouse activity (and more). xev: a tool that prints contents of X events. xbindkeys: a program that grab keys and mouse button events in X and starts associated shell command. To bind the mouse buttons to key combinations we'll use the following tools: This will only work if you use X11 (it does not work on Wayland) because the tools we'll use for this only support X11. If you have a mouse with extra buttons, you can bind those buttons to perform a key combination, run a program, command or script.
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