disable hot corner cinnamon

[knireis]

How do i disable the top left 'hot corner' in cinnamon?

[Paul_Vandenberg]

Make sure you are at the latest version of Cinnamon. Make sure dconf-tools is installed and then launch dconf-editor and navigate to org -> cinnamon. You should see entries there to disable it. I wouldn't be surprised if Clem eventually has a better GUI tool for these tweaks, but he is probably concentrating on getting the various functionality in place first.

Paul

[knireis]

great

[bimsebasse]

Can't be done in dconf editor at the moment - do it like this:

Open Cinnamon's layout.js as root:

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gksu gedit /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/layout.js

Find this bit:

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this._corner = new Clutter.Rectangle({ name: 'hot-corner',
                                               width: 1,
                                               height: 1,
                                               opacity: 0,
                                               reactive: false });

- and change "true" to "false" in the last line like I have done. Save, exit, hot corner disabled.

[bimsebasse]

Oops, scratch that, apparently that can be done on GUI level now with the latest Cinnamon update.

[drcasper]

Can "infinity" icon be removed?
I have no use of that.

[bimsebasse]

See 5b in this thread

[RobertLM78]

Make sure you are at the latest version of Cinnamon. Make sure dconf-tools is installed and then launch dconf-editor and navigate to org -> cinnamon. You should see entries there to disable it. I wouldn't be surprised if Clem eventually has a better GUI tool for these tweaks, but he is probably concentrating on getting the various functionality in place first.

Paul

I hope that there is a better GUI for these settings. I personally think that they should be within the "Cinnamon Settings". I would really like to see a desktop that puts every single setting in one nice place - even if it weren't a GUI, just a manual with all the terminal commands or file tweaks for every setting you can think of would be cool. KDE seems to make an attempt at this with "System Settings", but even that isn't quite "there" yet - it is close, but there are a few things that don't work right. In Gnome and Cinnamon, using dconf-editor, Configuration Editor, and even the more user friendly GUI setting tools like Advanced Settings all feel a little clunky- like you're throwing switches and checking boxes - all without any kind of "Apply" button, which makes one think, "gee, that was scarily easy". These things being said, I really do like what Mint is doing with Cinnamon and even MATE, but I'd like to see the key-bindings actually work right in MATE - I can't seem to get most of the shortcuts to work...

[SallyK]

Robert, the original post you replied to was from back in January - with the current version of Cinnamon, 1.4, you can control the hot corner (including turning it off, or moving it to any corner of the screen) from Cinnamon settings.

[RobertLM78]

Robert, the original post you replied to was from back in January - with the current version of Cinnamon, 1.4, you can control the hot corner (including turning it off, or moving it to any corner of the screen) from Cinnamon settings.

Boy, I feel stupid - I somehow completely overlooked that. I guess I thought it would be under "Desktop" or "Effects" so much it simply didn't occur to me to look under the Cinnamon settings main menu. Now if we could get Cinnamon settings and Gnome's system settings in one GUI we would really be cooking .

Thanks for the help!

[craig100]

I used Cinnamon 1.4 since it came out with an NVidia graphics card and two screens. The Hot Corner was never controllable until recently. Today, I have rebuilt my main twin screen machine with Mint 13 Cinnamon and find that there is a regression. No matter what setting I use for Hot Corner Enabled in Cinnamon Settings, it's always on!

Is there any way to switch this damn thing off? It REALLY gets on my nerves. Nearly as much as finding it back again after it had been fixed:(

Thanks

Craig xx

[redtiger]

I to find hot corner annoying. I am running Nvidia graphics with two screens. When I disable Hot Corner it stops working on the right-hand screen but is still active on the left-hand screen. As I have two screens I do not need more workspaces so have set it to window selection which is less of an annoyance. Any advice on fixing this problem would be welcome.

[Condorman]

Well I for one absolutely love it, and use it every day. It really adds something unique and brilliant to Cinnamon imho.

[as.white.as.snow]

I also find it annoying. The Cinnamon Settings menu only seems to disable hot corners on the main screen, but my second monitor would still have active hot corners. In fact, I could not even seem to change the location of the hot corner on the second screen.

Anyway, I was able to fix it by editing /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/layout.js as described at http://www.itworld.com/software/235279/turn-top-left-hot-corner-linux-mint-12 (but note the "cinnamon" rather than "gnome-shell" in the path).