For years, I never used the extra buttons on the side of my mouse, and mostly just viewed them as a nuisance. Too often I’d click them by accident and trigger some unwanted action, like ...

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 ...

Press the DPI switch button once and move the mouse. If the cursor speed changes, you’ve found the cause. Cycle through the ...

I'm running synergy server on a Windows XP SP2 computer with my powerbook connecting to it via the synergy client. I've got a USB keyboard and mouse (Logitech MX1000) plugged into the Windows ...