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BetterTouchTool is a great, feature packed app that allows you to customize various input devices on your Mac. You can use it to open a Kando menu via touchpad gestures or a mouse button.

GUI Configuration

Section titled “GUI Configuration”
  1. In BetterTouchTool navigate to the ‘Normal Mouse’ section. There, create a Trigger with the mouse button you want to use (in the example it’s mouse button 7).
  2. Create an action under ‘Actions Executed On Press’.
  3. Select ‘Send Key Down Only’.
  4. Similarily, under ‘Actions Executed On Click RELEASE’ create a action that ‘Send Key Up Only’.

JSON Configuration

Section titled “JSON Configuration”

Alternatively, you can also Copy & Paste the example code below, to send the keyboard shortcut ‘CTRL + F13’ when pressing the mouse button 7

[
  {
    "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1772350987.4586649,
    "BTTTriggerType" : 1007,
    "BTTTriggerTypeDescriptionReadOnly" : "Button 7",
    "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "1345F060-135B-4341-B6F0-E7480914A160",
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeNormalMouse",
    "BTTUUID" : "95B2EC52-89A1-4B3D-A12F-783D55A1DF10",
    "BTTOrder" : 8,
    "BTTActionsToExecute" : [
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1772351016.1467381,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "95B2EC52-89A1-4B3D-A12F-783D55A1DF10",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeNormalMouse",
        "BTTUUID" : "0F38CC89-29A3-45F3-A993-E5C59B206009",
        "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "F13",
        "BTTGenericActionConfig2" : "onlyDown",
        "BTTShortcutToSend" : "59,105",
        "BTTShortcutUpDown" : "onlyDown",
        "BTTOrder" : 0
      },
      {
        "BTTActionCategory" : 31,
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1772351022.5314541,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "95B2EC52-89A1-4B3D-A12F-783D55A1DF10",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeNormalMouse",
        "BTTUUID" : "97337D1F-B44B-4F00-B47F-35959C8723D8",
        "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "F13",
        "BTTGenericActionConfig2" : "onlyUp",
        "BTTShortcutToSend" : "59,105",
        "BTTShortcutUpDown" : "onlyUp",
        "BTTOrder" : 2
      }
    ]
  }
]