diff --git a/events.cpp b/events.cpp
index 13ed239b0e..23e2c5e98a 100644
--- a/events.cpp
+++ b/events.cpp
@@ -911,10 +911,7 @@ void Client::grabButton(int modifier)
     for (int i = 0;
             i < 8;
             ++i)
-        XGrabButton(display(), AnyButton,
-                    modifier | mods[ i ],
-                    wrapperId(), false, ButtonPressMask,
-                    GrabModeSync, GrabModeAsync, None, None);
+        m_wrapper.grabButton(XCB_GRAB_MODE_SYNC, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC, modifier | mods[ i ]);
 }
 
 void Client::ungrabButton(int modifier)
@@ -951,10 +948,7 @@ void Client::updateMouseGrab()
     }
     if (isActive() && !workspace()->forcedGlobalMouseGrab()) { // see Workspace::establishTabBoxGrab()
         // first grab all modifier combinations
-        XGrabButton(display(), AnyButton, AnyModifier, wrapperId(), false,
-                    ButtonPressMask,
-                    GrabModeSync, GrabModeAsync,
-                    None, None);
+        m_wrapper.grabButton(XCB_GRAB_MODE_SYNC, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC);
         // remove the grab for no modifiers only if the window
         // is unobscured or if the user doesn't want click raise
         // (it is unobscured if it the topmost in the unconstrained stacking order, i.e. it is
@@ -970,10 +964,7 @@ void Client::updateMouseGrab()
     } else {
         m_wrapper.ungrabButton();
         // simply grab all modifier combinations
-        XGrabButton(display(), AnyButton, AnyModifier, wrapperId(), false,
-                    ButtonPressMask,
-                    GrabModeSync, GrabModeAsync,
-                    None, None);
+        m_wrapper.grabButton(XCB_GRAB_MODE_SYNC, XCB_GRAB_MODE_ASYNC);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/xcbutils.h b/xcbutils.h
index 117cce9b84..fd16c851e1 100644
--- a/xcbutils.h
+++ b/xcbutils.h
@@ -438,6 +438,13 @@ public:
     void reparent(xcb_window_t parent, int x = 0, int y = 0);
     void deleteProperty(xcb_atom_t property);
     void setBorderWidth(uint32_t width);
+    void grabButton(uint8_t pointerMode, uint8_t keyboardmode,
+                    uint16_t modifiers = XCB_MOD_MASK_ANY,
+                    uint8_t button = XCB_BUTTON_INDEX_ANY,
+                    uint16_t eventMask = XCB_EVENT_MASK_BUTTON_PRESS,
+                    xcb_window_t confineTo = XCB_WINDOW_NONE,
+                    xcb_cursor_t cursor = XCB_CURSOR_NONE,
+                    bool ownerEvents = false);
     void ungrabButton(uint16_t modifiers = XCB_MOD_MASK_ANY, uint8_t button = XCB_BUTTON_INDEX_ANY);
     /**
      * Clears the window area. Same as xcb_clear_area with x, y, width, height being @c 0.
@@ -644,6 +651,18 @@ void Window::setBorderWidth(uint32_t width)
     xcb_configure_window(connection(), m_window, XCB_CONFIG_WINDOW_BORDER_WIDTH, &width);
 }
 
+inline
+void Window::grabButton(uint8_t pointerMode, uint8_t keyboardmode, uint16_t modifiers,
+                        uint8_t button, uint16_t eventMask, xcb_window_t confineTo,
+                        xcb_cursor_t cursor, bool ownerEvents)
+{
+    if (!isValid()) {
+        return;
+    }
+    xcb_grab_button(connection(), ownerEvents, m_window, eventMask,
+                    pointerMode, keyboardmode, confineTo, cursor, button, modifiers);
+}
+
 inline
 void Window::ungrabButton(uint16_t modifiers, uint8_t button)
 {