Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?
Richmond wrote:
> Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/29/23, Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote:
>>> I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and
>>> swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I
>>> went back to check the setting which was in "multitasking" before, that
>>> tab has gone. Where is the hot corner setting now?
>>
>> Hi.. I've taken a poke at this via an Internet search. I originally
>> missed you declaring GNOME in the subject line. That brings up this:
>>
>> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-hot-corners false
>>
>> That's a tweak on where they're telling the user on this webpage to
>> enter "true":
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1259451/how-to-enable-to-hot-corners-function-on-lubuntu20-04
>>
>> Maybe once you set that, gsettings can be used to adjust it from
>> there? I tried that command on my setup. It didn't complain since I do
>> have one or more GNOME packages installed. Mine's currently set to
>> "true" with no obvious GUI to set up what actions go with the 4
>> corners.
>>
>> Because you mentioned this was affecting your browser usage, maybe
>> this explains what happened there:
>>
>> https://haydenjames.io/ubuntu-22-04-install-gnome-extensions-manager-workaround/
>>
>> It's saying that Firefox, for one, is no longer compatible in that
>> operating system.
>>
>> With some more searching, I encountered gnome-shell-extensions and
>> gnome-shell-extension-manager. Those may or may not help, but they do
>> exist and are specifically mentioned with respect to toggling hot
>> corners.
>>
>> Searching for those two and Debian as keywords keeps trying to point
>> users to outside websites. I don't know why it would since it looks
>> like the same packages are available through Debian's own apt package
>> manager.
>>
>> WARNING: I was going to test drive the extension manager, but
>> gnome-shell-extensions by itself wants to install 201 new packages at
>> 125MB download, 488MB of additional space used. Maybe next time.
>>
>> If anyone gets curious about hot corners, apparently not all desktops
>> offer them and/or they store hot corners access in varying settings
>> locations. Best bet might be to specify the desktop environment in
>> searches.
>>
>> "apt-get search" pulls up an applet for Budgie. Anything else with hot
>> corners apparently has them included as one piece of an inclusive
>> "goodies" type package.
>>
>> Me? I tried it, maybe when I was trapped using Mint's LiveDVD. The
>> experience lasted about 90 seconds. My mouse usage is too erratic,
>> moves around the screen too much so the otherwise helpful effect got
>> old really quick.
>>
>> Cindy :)
> That's interesting because when I entered this:
>
> gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-hot-corners
>
> it said:
>
> false
>
> Which means I have disabled it, and the effect I saw must have been a
> bug. But it is hard to recreate. It happens from time to time though, I
> am using a trackball mouse so zooming to the top right can happen quite
> easily.
>
I find it easy to recreate now. Just press and hold the left mouse
button, then whizz up to the top left corner, and it goes into whatever
mode, even though hot corners are disabled.
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