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.

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 got a mouse with an extra button under the thumb, and I'm having a hard time figuring out how I can get it to do anything. Ideally, I'd like it to switch windows in Windowmaker, but any hints ...