Bind Alt + Tab shortcut to a mouse button on xfce

Question

Anyone knows how to bind Alt + Tab shortcut to a mouse button on xfce?

Answer 1

xvkbd and xbindkeys

Let's say we want to bind some mouse buttons to keyboard ones. The problem we will encounter is that we do not know how to emulate a key press. Here comes in handy xvkbd. We can use it along with xbindkeys.

xbindkeys --defaults >> ~/.xbindkeysrc
xbindkeys

To restart xbindkeys type:

pkill -f xbindkeys
xbindkeys 

Here's example ~/.xbindkeysrc config:

"xvkbd  -text "\[F8]""
       m:0x0 + b:8
"xvkbd  -text "\[Shift]\[Left]""
       m:0x0 + b:9
"xvkbd  -text "\[Shift]\[Right]""
       m:0x0 + b:10
"xvkbd  -text 2"
       m:0x0 + b:11
"xvkbd  -text 3"
       m:0x0 + b:12

If you want to check your mouse buttons number use xev. Don't forget to type capital letters in xvkbd -text usage and to escape opening bracket with \ or you get simply [Shift] written.

Here is an example for xbindkeys to enable x selection paste(third click pasting), you need both xsel and xvkbd installed, What it does it executes that command whenever button 13 of the mouse is pressed (in ~/.xbindkeysrc) :

"xvkbd -no-jump-pointer -text "\D1$(xsel)" 2>/dev/null"
b:13

And yes, you can bind typing obscene words to mouse keys. Excerpt taken from ArchWiki