What do you use your Hot Corners for?

[The Cockney Rebel]

Myself:

Bottom left: Screensaver

Top left: Put display to sleep

Bottom right: Show desktop

Top right: Widgets

You?

 

[nurotic]

Top left to lock my Mac.

My last company was hot on security. If you forgot to lock your Mac/pc you‘d get your wallpaper changed to some embarrassing image. A half naked David Hasselhoff was fave!

Bottom left mission control.

find it less cumbersome than using spaces.

 

[acidfast7_redux]

Do hot corners still exist? I used them initially in list 2010 or so but stopped shorter after and never used them again.

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

Do hot corners still exist? I used them initially in list 2010 or so but stopped shorter after and never used them again.

I find them extremely useful.

By the way, I'm also coming from a 2008 24" iMac, which I intend to retire.

Are you going to keep using yours, or are you doing away with it?

 

[Captain Trips]

Bottom right corner - lock the screen. Like others have said, my company is security conscious. If I bring one of my Mac laptops into the office after the "work from home full time" period ends, I want an easy way to lock the screen.

 

[jdb8167]

Nothing.

 

[velocityg4]

Don't use them. I hate it when I accidentally activate something.

 

[spiderman0616]

Bottom left for Launchpad and that's the only one I use. I've done it for years--it's like muscle memory at this point.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I only have one (top right) that i use to put the display to sleep.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Top right launch pad, bottom right mission control. Bottom left show desktop.
Used to have top left to sleep but far to annoying on an accidental hit so now I use a hot key for that.

 

[tonyxcom]

Bottom left - Lock Screen. Its the least used corner I flick towards.

 

[acidfast7_redux]

I find them extremely useful.

By the way, I'm also coming from a 2008 24" iMac, which I intend to retire.

Are you going to keep using yours, or are you doing away with it?

I just watched some channel 4 ugly homes on mine in the living room with my family.

 

[adrianlondon]

Top right - display sleep
Bottom right - desktop
Top left - mission control

Now that the power button on my Air locks the screen (came with one of the Big Sur betas - forget which) I removed bottom left.

 

[deeddawg]

Top left to lock my Mac.

My last company was hot on security. If you forgot to lock your Mac/pc you‘d get your wallpaper changed to some embarrassing image. A half naked David Hasselhoff was fave!

Bottom left mission control.

find it less cumbersome than using spaces.

Do you find that faster than the thumb+three-finger pinch gesture?

Edit - I meant three-finger-swipe-up. Dunno what I was thinking mixing up Launchpad & Mission Control

 

[Fair Witness]

Bottom right: Show desktop
Top right: screensaver/lock

 

[adrianlondon]

Do you find that faster than the thumb+three-finger pinch gesture?

Mission control hot corner shows the desktop thumbnails. Four-finger swipe (4 finger pinch does Launchpad on my system) just shows the desktop names.

 

[shady825]

Top left to enable screen saver. That's all I use.

 

[idktbh]

Top Right : Applications Windows
Bottom Right : Desktop
Bottom Left : Mission Control

I can't imagine using macOS without hot corners!

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

I used to use HotKeys for Mission Control, and Applications Window.

However, I've since changed them because you can use all fingers and thumb pinch to access applications, and 4 fingers up (on the trackpad, obviously) to invoke Mission Control.

And I agree; I love Hot Corners.

 

[deeddawg]

Mission control hot corner shows the desktop thumbnails. Four-finger swipe (4 finger pinch does Launchpad on my system) just shows the desktop names.

Thanks. I'd mixed up Launchpad (four-pinch) with Mission Control (three-finger-swipe-up) for some reason.

Anyway, I tried the hotkey for Mission Control and it looks the same as when I do the three-finger-swipe-up.

*shrug*.

 

[Eithanius]

Bottom left: Mission Control
Bottom right: Desktop

 

[jdb8167]

Top left to enable screen saver. That's all I use.

Something I don't really understand is why people still use screen savers at all. Just have the screen turn off. Saves power. I guess it could be an aesthetic but I haven't used a screen saver in over a decade. It is always one of the first things I turn off when I set up a new Mac.

 

[Avenida]

Something I don't really understand is why people still use screen savers at all. Just have the screen turn off. Saves power. I guess it could be an aesthetic but I haven't used a screen saver in over a decade. It is always one of the first things I turn off when I set up a new Mac.

yeah, 1995 just called and wants their screen savers back! lol

 

[velocityg4]

Something I don't really understand is why people still use screen savers at all. Just have the screen turn off. Saves power. I guess it could be an aesthetic but I haven't used a screen saver in over a decade. It is always one of the first things I turn off when I set up a new Mac.

I leave it on but have the timer set longer than sleep. That way. Just in case something prevents sleep after I walk away. The screensaver will be running. Although something preventing sleep seems to be more of a Windows issue.

 

[markiv810]

Hot corners has made my life easy on the Mac, I have been using this configuration for years. My standard configuration on every computer I use is (I use only Macs):

Top left: Screensaver

Top right: Mission Control

Bottom left: Show desktop

Bottom right: Application Windows