For this Weekend Question I turned to the PCG staff and forums to ask: What do you use those extra buttons on the side of your mouse for? Here are our answers, as well as some from our forum.

I'll start by simply naming all the button combinations you will be using. I will organise them later. I will also be using extra mouse buttons, myself I have a Logitech MX518. It has only 2 extra ...

My mouse has 5 buttons. In OSX I bind the farleft button to expose and the far right to show desktop. I was hoping to do something similar in Linux. The far left to switch to next desktop and the ...

I've done much googling on the prospect of using the thumb buttons on my mouse to do something useful in X.In fact, this guide explains how to configure X + ...

Windows only: X-Mouse Button Control, a free Windows mouse utility, is a highly-configurable tool that enables you to set your extra mouse buttons, or even your standard set of three, to do all ...

If your middle mouse button is sitting idly by while your other buttons work overtime, I definitely recommend giving X-Mouse a try. –Rick Broida ...