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Q: hot corners not working

Afterupgrading to Mac OS X Lion, hot corners work when I restart my mac but they soon become unresponsive except for one corner, anyone got any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 11:52 AM

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  • by Dan_Henese,

    Dan_Henese Dan_Henese Dec 20, 2011 6:01 PM in response to adburke1
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    Dec 20, 2011 6:01 PM in response to adburke1

    For those still having the issue even after resetting permissions, you may want to give this a shot.

     

    Reboot your Mac and hold down CMD+R to boot up into the recovery console.

     

    Then go to the 'Utility' menu and open up a Terminal.

     

    Within the terminal, type 'resetpassword' and hit enter.

     

    This should open up a new window with the ability to reset any user's password as seen here: http://4macs.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/media-1241593782847.png?w=490&h=550

     

    Instead of reseting the password, though, select the account with the Hot Corner issue and then click the button at the bottom to "Reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLs". You should *not* have to reset your password.

     

    This will reset that account's user permissions so that the system can correctly write to permission files within their home folder's library.

     

    Once it has finished, quit out the resetpassword utility and quit out the recovery console to reboot back into Mac and see if Hot Corner preferences function properly.

  • by pablopaul,

    pablopaul pablopaul Dec 21, 2011 8:25 PM in response to adburke1
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    Dec 21, 2011 8:25 PM in response to adburke1

    Rebooting and resetting permissions seems to help briefly, but after a few minutes, Hot Corners stops functioning again. This is clearly a bug which Apple still hasn't bothered to fix.

  • by klmfvej ,

    klmfvej klmfvej Dec 29, 2011 10:53 PM in response to adburke1
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    Dec 29, 2011 10:53 PM in response to adburke1

    hot corners quit working, disgusted with Lion after 3 clean install system crashes... worst Mac OS version so far. For everything good, it's all negated by overall glitchy nonsense, the basic funtionality of most system features are broken, even the finder is laggy and flawed.

  • by G Ragu,

    G Ragu G Ragu Dec 29, 2011 10:57 PM in response to klmfvej
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    Dec 29, 2011 10:57 PM in response to klmfvej

    Hi,

     

    I think hot corners not working if wineskin starts working.

     

    without opening it.... hot corners seems to work fine...

     

     

    Try it out..

  • by doh1231,

    doh1231 doh1231 Jan 3, 2012 5:13 AM in response to G Ragu
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    Jan 3, 2012 5:13 AM in response to G Ragu

    G Ragu wrote:

     

    Hi,

     

    I think hot corners not working if wineskin starts working.

     

    without opening it.... hot corners seems to work fine...

     

     

    Try it out..

    What exactly do you mean?  Wineskin shouldn't affect teh corners unless your running something thats using fullscreen, then it captures the whole display, and yes, hotcorners and many other things will not work... but thats intended as fullscreen usage is for gaming.  You can toggle captured fullscreen with anything ported with Wineskin by using Cmd+Opt+A if you need to multitask some.

  • by hsilver,

    hsilver hsilver Jan 26, 2012 5:42 AM in response to adburke1
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    Jan 26, 2012 5:42 AM in response to adburke1

    Hot corners (including the F3 button) are still not working for me - kind of driving me insane. I paid for this upgrade to Lion and do not think it's my responsibility to do bug fixes on my own time. The whole point of buying this was to NOT inconvenience me... Has anyone had good luck with talking to Apple reps? I'm calling them today to see what I can do.

  • by DWChristopher,

    DWChristopher DWChristopher Jan 30, 2012 2:36 PM in response to doh1231
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    Jan 30, 2012 2:36 PM in response to doh1231

    Just recently started having this issue. I was getting completely torqued about it, and not satisfied at all that I had to do ANY kind of coding (my word for 'being treated like a Windows user') to fix this. I didn't buy a Mac (several actually) to have to do this for something so basic.

    But I digress...  I play a game that uses wineskin. temporary fix until I get the bootcamp loaded with windows. played the game for a couple of days, then my Hot Corners died with no fix in sight.   HOWEVER COMMA!! I saw doh1231's comment about CMD+OPT+A...

     

    1) started the game, cmd+opt+A'd to windowed mode, tried the corners = WORKS!

    2) killed the game with cmd-Q, tried corner = WORKS!

    3) restarted the game, it defaults to fullscreen mode (cmd-tab stops working too... grr), killed game = NO WORK!!

    4) restarted game, cmd-opt-A to windowed mode = CORNERS WORK

    5) killed game = CORNERS WORK

     

    so for ME, this was enough proof that the wineskin was the wrench in my works.. I don't know how or where, but now my corners work, and I know where the culprit is if they stop working again...

     

    Hope this helps!

  • by George22a,

    George22a George22a Feb 14, 2012 11:17 AM in response to Dan_Henese
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    Feb 14, 2012 11:17 AM in response to Dan_Henese

    Thanks Dan - worked like a charm!

  • by TitusSFO,

    TitusSFO TitusSFO Feb 16, 2012 3:45 PM in response to Dan_Henese
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    Feb 16, 2012 3:45 PM in response to Dan_Henese

    This tip worked fine for me. Thanks Dan! I just had to arrange my Dock again, but that was a minor inconvenience. Hot Corners are back!

     

     

    10.7.1 update seemed to have solved this for me.

     

    However, for those still having Hot Corner issues, here's something to try.

     

    Go to your Finder and press Cmd+Shift+G and enter ~/Library/Preferences . This will navigate you to your user library/preferences folder.


    Move the file 'com.apple.dock.plist' to your trash and log out and back in. Your dock will most likely need to be reconfigured and reorganized as well as your Mission Control settings. This should reset dock and Mission Control settings to the user default and hopefully will clear up any bugs in those preferences. Set your Hot Corners and see if they stay set for good this time.

  • by johangrb,

    johangrb johangrb Mar 23, 2012 5:37 AM in response to adburke1
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    Mar 23, 2012 5:37 AM in response to adburke1

    +1. Lion hot corners stop working. Tried all of the remedies mentioned here. (Permissions, created new login, plist edit...).

     

    Logging on & off fixes it for me(i.e. no need to reboot).

     

    (As an aside -since upgrading to Lion on my mid-2010 MBP, I've had more spinning beach balls, freezes/reboots and odd bugs than ever (even compared to my <gasp> Win7 setup). Cheetah was the last stable release imho).

  • by Cysis,

    Cysis Cysis Apr 14, 2012 3:56 PM in response to adburke1
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    Apr 14, 2012 3:56 PM in response to adburke1

    i developed this same issue and did a log off and log on.  that fixed it for me.  funny how losing a feature that is so basic causes so much frustration.

  • by Russell Madden,

    Russell Madden Russell Madden Apr 14, 2012 9:46 PM in response to Cysis
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    Apr 14, 2012 9:46 PM in response to Cysis

    I had this problem before. Then (I think) I restarted or something and it eventually started working. Problem began again a couple of days ago. After reading this tip, I logged out, logged back in, and hot corner for screen saver working again. Weird.

  • by tyler57,

    tyler57 tyler57 Apr 15, 2012 10:32 PM in response to Michaël Betsch
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    Apr 15, 2012 10:32 PM in response to Michaël Betsch

    This solved my problem. 

  • by Sagacity,

    Sagacity Sagacity May 15, 2012 7:57 PM in response to 2smemor
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    May 15, 2012 7:57 PM in response to 2smemor

    the same problem, It works fine until I upgraded to 10.7.4 these days.

    any other help?

  • by aaroncl,

    aaroncl aaroncl May 28, 2012 3:04 PM in response to adburke1
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    May 28, 2012 3:04 PM in response to adburke1

    If you still have problems with Hot Corners not working, open Activity Monitor, select "mdworker" and quit process, then sit back and watch your Hot Corners work again.

     

    Of course, this disables indexing for Spotlight, but once you do a Spotlight search, mdworker should start up again, but Hot Corners should also remain working.

     

    I found this by pure chance. I always have Activity Monitor open and noticed that when I restart my machine, Hot Corners wouldn't work. So I looked through A.M. and noticed mdworker was using about 65% CPU, so i quit the process and viola, H.C. starts working immediately.

     

    Hope this help everyone.

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