Is there a way to bind a mouse button to open a menu?

[CarlQLange]

I kind of just want to use the mouse to open fly-pie, no keyboard involved at all. I've got a Logitech MX Master with too many buttons - is there a way for me to bind a mouse button (eg, mouse 5) to open fly-pie natively? Or do I need to do some hax to first bind that button to a keypress with Logiops or xbindkeys or something?

Awesome extension by the way, the amount of effort you've put in really shows through!

[Schneegans]

AFAIK, it's impossible for a GNOME Shell extension to bind something globally to a mouse button. Nevertheless, there are some third-party possibilities as you already pointed out. I can suggest these, for example:

• Custom Hot Corners - Extended: Open menus by moving your mouse to one corner of your screen!
• Input Remapper: Bind menus to your additional mouse buttons!
• xbindkeys: X11-only alternative to Input Remapper.
• Easystroke: X11 only, use mouse gestures to open menus!

[CarlQLange]

That's great, thanks! Good to know it's a technical requirement. I ended up using logiops to bind a key to a mouse button and used that.