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Hot corners not working after updating to 11.10

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 3720 / 3 Years ago, tue, june 15, 2021, 4:33:28

Ubuntu newbie here.

I had Ubuntu for a while now, since 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), and I was getting very comfortable at installing / uninstalling and finding my way through stuff. Loved the cube etc.

Then came along 11.04, the great natty narwhal, and I could no longer have my desktop cube, but after using it for a while I really got used to the so called "hot corners", where it shows all desktop if mouse hits screen top left (0,0), all windows at top right, and show desktop at bottom right. I am so used to it that ubuntu is unusable now without it, after the 11.10 upgrade. I cannot get it to work no matter how hard I Try.

How do I go about getting them back? Why did Ubuntu stop hot corners? It was so amazingly useful!

I've only used ubuntu for basic tasks because it was a nightmare getting my wacom table to work on it. So please give the complete details necessary,

thanks.

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answered 3 Years ago hentor · Accepted Answer

More than likely you used Compiz Config Settings Manager to set up your hot corners. There are other applications, but since you seem to be using Unity I won't go into all of that.

In general, setting up a hot corner is dependent on the particular plugin/feature that you want to activate (in other words you have to choose the hot corner from the plugin's settings).

An example:

Open Compiz Config Settings Manager.

Open the Widget Layer Plugin's settings.

Click on the "none" next to Toggle Widget Display.

Choose a hot corner (screen edge), and close the dialogue.

Try your new hot corner, and change it if you like.

NB:

The same method works for other plugins that support hot corners, including showing the desktop (in general options), activating scale mode (globabally), etc.