{"id":9129,"date":"2019-07-03T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9129"},"modified":"2019-07-03T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:30:50","slug":"enable-hot-corners-ubuntu-18-04-19-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/enable-hot-corners-ubuntu-18-04-19-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Hot Corners in Ubuntu 18.04, 19.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/gnome-logo-icon.png\" alt=\"Paper GTK3 and Icon themes\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/gnome-logo-icon.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/gnome-logo-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This quick tutorial shows how to enable hot corners in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher Gnome shell.<\/p>\n<p>While Gnome Tweaks provides only option to enable top-left hot corner (Activities overview), users can enable more hot corners in Gnome desktop via an extension called &#8216;Custom Hot Corners&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The extension enables multi-monitor hot corners with actions including <i>Toggle overview<\/i>, <i>Show desktop<\/i>, <i>Show applications<\/i>, and custom command.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gnome-hotcorner-600x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gnome-hotcorner-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gnome-hotcorner-450x314.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gnome-hotcorner.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To install the extension, simply open <b>Ubuntu Software<\/b>, search for and install &#8216;custom hot corners&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/custom-hotcorner-600x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/custom-hotcorner-600x298.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/custom-hotcorner-450x224.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/custom-hotcorner-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/custom-hotcorner.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then you can bring up the configuration page via <b>Gnome Tweaks<\/b> (install it via Ubuntu Software) -> <b>Extensions<\/b> page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/customhotcorner-setting-600x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/customhotcorner-setting-600x290.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/customhotcorner-setting-450x217.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/customhotcorner-setting-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/customhotcorner-setting.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, <code>wmctrl<\/code> is required for &#8216;Show desktop&#8217; action. Simply open terminal via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> and run command to install the library:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install wmctrl<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wmctrl-600x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"106\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wmctrl-600x106.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wmctrl-450x80.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wmctrl.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tutorial shows how to enable hot corners in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher Gnome shell. While Gnome Tweaks provides only option to enable top-left hot corner (Activities overview), users can enable more hot corners in Gnome desktop via an extension called &#8216;Custom Hot Corners&#8217;. The extension enables multi-monitor hot corners with actions including Toggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1244,1750],"class_list":["post-9129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-hot-corners","tag-hot-corners-ubuntu-18-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}