Learn about Hot Corners and how you can use them to have your cursor trigger actions like starting or disabling your screen saver, putting your display to sleep, or starting Expose or the Dashboard.
Comments: 4 Responses to “MacMost Now 225: Hot Corners”
Mark Sheppard
15 years ago
Another handy tip for Hot Corners is, you can add a modifier key to a corner gesture, such as the command key. This way you won't have a corner action accidently triggered unless you are holding down the modifier key while moving your mouse to the corner.
Rainer
14 years ago
I added a modifyer key to hot corners in Snow Leopard. It worked great, but the modyfied key disappears on me after a while and the hot corners get activated again solely by the mouse!
Not sure why that would happen. Try adding it bacl and see how long it lasts.
Cr
15 years ago
Greeaatt!! I had a complete misunderstanding of what hot corners was. I was in system preferences and had done all you stated, however, I thought hot corners was having to "click" on the corner of the trackpad. Great explanation. Thank you.
Another handy tip for Hot Corners is, you can add a modifier key to a corner gesture, such as the command key. This way you won't have a corner action accidently triggered unless you are holding down the modifier key while moving your mouse to the corner.
I added a modifyer key to hot corners in Snow Leopard. It worked great, but the modyfied key disappears on me after a while and the hot corners get activated again solely by the mouse!
Not sure why that would happen. Try adding it bacl and see how long it lasts.
Greeaatt!! I had a complete misunderstanding of what hot corners was. I was in system preferences and had done all you stated, however, I thought hot corners was having to "click" on the corner of the trackpad. Great explanation. Thank you.