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    gnome 3 how to turn off the top left mouse hot corner

    https://extensions.gnome.org/ -- for a lot of other gnome shell extensions


    From the gnome shell cheat sheet
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    Switching to and from the overview

    Hot corner - moving the mouse pointer to the top left corner of the screen will take you to the overview or back to the desktop.

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    Since applications particularly vim always start in the top left corner
    I was constantly triggering the hot corner accidently. I looked around and found
    this hack on a unbuntu forum.

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    For 11.10

    edit file /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.js Find this code:

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

    Change reactive: true to reactive: false and it will disable the hot corner but still allow to activate the overview screen by clicking the Activities button or by pressing the Super (Windows) key.
    Last edited by oystercatcher; 3rd March 2012 at 06:39 PM.

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    Re: gnome 3 how to turn off the top left mouse hot corner

    Here is a funny follow-up.

    My F16 system crashed when it attempted to start Gnome today ("Oh no"). I was looking at logs, booting from LiveCDs, and everything checked out. I was downloading F17, figuring that a reinstall was required, when I looked at /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log and saw that it was reporting a syntax error in layout.js. Yep, I had deleted a comma when making the modification, and even forgotten that I had made a modification. Easy fix that left me feeling both dumb and smart.

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    Talking Re: gnome 3 how to turn off the top left mouse hot corner

    edit file /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.js Find this code:

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

    Change reactive: true to reactive: false and it will disable the hot corner but still allow to activate the overview screen by clicking the Activities button or by pressing the Super (Windows) key.
    I wish I could upvote you. Thanks a million for helping fix another Gnome annoyance.

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