SOLVED - need xbindkeys/xmodmap help/alternative

I've got a trackball keyboard without a middle mouse button: nice but still a catastrophe.
From the xbindkeys manpage:
XbindKeys is a program that grab keys and mouse button events in X and starts associated shell command.
Thing is, I don't want to run a shell command (I think) but want to remap another key or key combination so it gets interpreted as a middle mouse click.
afaik xmodmap should be capable of doing this but despite searching I cannot for the life of me make out how to do it
Last edited by toad (2011-10-08 21:35:19)

Excellent! Thanks for that info, it worked a treat. Now I'm able to copy and paste as per usual. Now looking for convenient keys for click 4 and 5
Am marking this as solved.

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Last edited by NeoXP (2009-11-16 22:40:45)

@ skanky
Thanks for the suggestion, but you're right I'm not gonna change a working script. It is working exactly as expected.
@ all
When interested this is my current handler.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
# NOTE: This is a 2.6-centric script. If you use 2.4.x, you'll have to
# modify it to not use /sys
minspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq`
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