Corners (itch) Mac OS
OS X’s Hot Corners come alive after you set a not-so-easy-to-spot preference. This lets you determine what actions will trigger when you move your cursor into a particular corner of your Mac’s.
Hot Corners on Mac is one of these features that hasn’t seen much of the spotlight. It allows you to turn your ordinary screen corners into interactive corners that perform tasks for you. You can assign a task to each of the four corners on your Mac. Hot Corners is a less known feature on Mac. This video will show you how to use hot corners on mac OS X/macOS Sierra. To set up and use a screensaver hot cor.
Apple's macOS comes with a Hot Corners feature that turns each of the four corners of the screen into action that will be executed. This allows you to quickly access Notification and other system features by moving the cursor to one of the four corners of the screen.
A similar feature is also available in the Linux operating system through the GNOME desktop environment.
Windows, on the other hand, does not have such a feature unless you install a new open-source application for Windows 10 called 'HotCorners'.
HotCorners is an open-source JAVA-based portable application created by developer Ashish Raju that lets you assign actions to all four corners using a tray icon.
Corners (itch) Mac Os X
Using the app, you can configure each corner to execute a specified application, shut down the computer, log off of Windows, turn the screen off, or open the Task Manager.
These commands can all be configured independently as you wish for each corner as shown below.
For example, you can configure the app to launch Windows Calculator when you move the cursor to the top right corner of the screen. You can also configure it to open Task Manager, shut down, log out and lock your device.
How to enable macOS Hot Corners on Windows 10
To install HotCorners in Windows 10, you first need to make sure you have the latest version of the Java runtime installed.
Once installed, please follow these steps to install HotCorners.
- Download HotCorners from SourceForge.
- Install the program in Windows 10.
- Once installed, HotCorners will run automatically at startup and you can configure it by clicking on its icon located in the system tray.
If you attempt to launch the program and get an error stating Windows does not know how to open the file, this means that you do not have Java installed.
It's worth noting that this concept isn't new by any means. There is another app called 'WinXCorners' that lets you use macOS' Hot Corners feature on Windows 10.