Karabiner-Elements (macOS)

Karabiner-Elements is a powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS that also can be used to send keyboard shortcuts with your mouse.

GUI Configuration

1. In Karabiner-Elements you need to navigate on the left sidebar to ‘Devices’.
2. Activate ‘Modify events’ for the mouse that you want to use.
   
   
3. To setup a keyboard shortcut with your mouse, you need to create a ‘Complex Modification’ in Karabiner-Elements.
4. Setup the shortcut by clicking on ‘Add your own rule’.
   
   

JSON Configuration

Alternatively, copy & paste the example code below to send the keyboard shortcut ‘CTRL + F13’ when pressing the middle mouse button:

{
    "description": "Middle Mouse Button sends CTRL + F13",
    "manipulators": [
        {
            "from": { "pointing_button": "button3" },
            "to": [
                {
                    "key_code": "f13",
                    "modifiers": ["control"]
                }
            ],
            "type": "basic"
        }
    ]
}