btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons

[SnappyU]

I hear your pain my friend.

I also tried like you to bind the buttons to keys and for a while btnx was THE solution.

Then Ubuntu change the xorg or whatever is responsible for input and I think that broke btnx.

After that I switched to xmacrokeys and xbindkeys to do the mapping.

At some point, I started using easystroke and stopped binding mouse keys altogether.

I just attempted to install btnx in Precise, and after adding ~80Mb of crap to my system (12.04 Kubuntu) all btnx install options failed.
http://www.ollisalonen.com/ is loading completely blank pages for everyting and failing to respond to wget
http://ppa.launchpad.net/daou/ubuntu/dists/ only goes up to Hardy
And everything on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...+build/2772828 fails to get a successful install result.

Can anyone help?
It's not often that I want to assign keys to mouse buttons, but when I do btnx seems to be the only real option.

[betlog]

Well, some keyword tango and a dozen browser tabs later and I have a relatively simple and seemingly robust fix:
1)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts
and scroll down to "Text Entry Shortcuts"
Being told how to set up xbindkeys with a default config stopped it from crashing andallowedme to explore how it worked. Woot.
xbindkeys --defaults > /home/your-user-name/.xbindkeysrc
So I installed it and xbindkeys-config

2)
I already use xvkbd -xsendevent -text $(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S) to simplify adding dates and incrementing filenames. So xvkbd is already installed for me.

3)
Then I had to find out what the 'Back' and 'Forward' functions actually invoke:
XF86Back and XF86Forward
so then i searched for
"xvkbd -xsendevent" "XF86Back"
and google suddenly showed me what i wanted
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120372

4)
So now I have ~/.xbindkeysrc containing:

#mouse rearThumb
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[XF86Back]""
   b:8
#mouse frontThumb
"xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[XF86Forward]""
   b:9

edit:
I had assumed that if an app didn't recognise those keyevents I would also make it send event F13 and F14 or something like that.
BUT: Right now I am attempting to get TeamSpeak3 to use my mouse keys and F13 isn;t working. So still no ideal solution for that, but it's none-the-less very useful to know theres a substitute for btnx.

There... this post should have enough keywords for google to make it easily findable for the people sharing this problem.
woot

[betlog]

further information:
xdotool allow for a nicer syntax and keyup/keydown options
xev makes for decent button diagnostics
.xbindkeysrc.scm

(xbindkey '("b:9") "xdotool keydown BackSpace")
(xbindkey '( Release "b:9") "xdotool keyup BackSpace")

But binding some mouse buttons to teamspeak3 still just fails. I'm thinking this is a basic flaw/feature inherent in ts3.
Binding to things like F13 still produces keystroke output in text fields, so this is not ideal either.