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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 H Asseily,

    H Asseily H Asseily Jun 23, 2012 7:26 PM in response to aaroncl
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    Jun 23, 2012 7:26 PM in response to aaroncl

    I also have the Hot Corners issue after using my Mac for a certain amount of time. It's clear that there is an OS bug triggered by some app behavior. I didn't want to log out to fix it, so I found that the easiest thing was to go to the Hot Corners setup in system preferences (Screen Saver > Hot Corners), switch one hot corner to something else, go back to the original, and hit ok. That will reset the Hot Corners which will work again. You can't just hit "OK" without changing anything, the OS will notice you didn't do anything.

  • by mikesoderstrom,

    mikesoderstrom mikesoderstrom Jul 1, 2012 9:32 PM in response to adburke1
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    Jul 1, 2012 9:32 PM in response to adburke1

    Nothing works for me consistently. I mean, logging out or manually resetting the hot corners eventually works, but it always goes back to not working. It's weird because it's only happening on one of my computers, but it's setup almost identical to my other mac which has had no issues. Grr.

  • by Michaël Betsch,

    Michaël Betsch Michaël Betsch Jul 2, 2012 10:23 PM in response to adburke1
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    Jul 2, 2012 10:23 PM in response to adburke1

    Again, works every time : Launch a Terminal, execute the command "killall Dock".

     

    That's all.

  • by woodandbronze,

    woodandbronze woodandbronze Jul 28, 2012 11:49 AM in response to Michaël Betsch
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    Jul 28, 2012 11:49 AM in response to Michaël Betsch

    I've tried each and every suggestion and nothing works. *Shrug* Will learn to live without it

  • by m.mannes,

    m.mannes m.mannes Aug 21, 2012 11:03 AM in response to adburke1
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    Aug 21, 2012 11:03 AM in response to adburke1

    Same issue here, to temporarly solve the problem I start screen saver than exit it and voilà, hot corners are working again until screen saver triggers the problem again sometime...

  • by Doppelgangr,

    Doppelgangr Doppelgangr Sep 15, 2012 1:15 AM in response to Michaël Betsch
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    Sep 15, 2012 1:15 AM in response to Michaël Betsch

    @Michaël Betsch, thanks - killall Dock worked for me when hot corners crash everyonce in a while.

     

    This solved my question

  • by Mike in Key West,

    Mike in Key West Mike in Key West Sep 18, 2012 9:16 AM in response to aaroncl
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    Sep 18, 2012 9:16 AM in response to aaroncl

    aaroncl's approach (killing mdworker) worked for me.  Many thanks.

  • by bigo72,

    bigo72 bigo72 Dec 6, 2012 2:03 PM in response to adburke1
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    Dec 6, 2012 2:03 PM in response to adburke1

    Dunno if this helps you or not, guys, but it helped me: Skitch closed and SBAM! Everything works like a charm

  • by goodmanship,

    goodmanship goodmanship Feb 17, 2013 10:23 AM in response to Michaël Betsch
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    Feb 17, 2013 10:23 AM in response to Michaël Betsch

    Good answer Michaël Betsch

     

    I made a script for myself that will do killall Dock for me.  Feel free to use it:

     

    https://github.com/goodmanship/mac-dock-reset

  • by taylankilic,

    taylankilic taylankilic Oct 23, 2013 6:35 PM in response to adburke1
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    Oct 23, 2013 6:35 PM in response to adburke1

    I still have the same problem with mavericks and this time kill all dock is not working to reset Something like 2 years, god knows how many updates, 2 major update and still same problem.. Shouldn't be that much hard to fix it

  • by scarro24,

    scarro24 scarro24 Nov 13, 2013 7:56 AM in response to adburke1
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    Nov 13, 2013 7:56 AM in response to adburke1

    I can't find a solid, dependable fix that always works– but I did find two workaround solutions:

     

    Option 1 (Add a screensaver icon to your Dock)

    1. Open Finder

    2. Press cmd+shift+G

    3. Copy and paste the following path into the box:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources

    4. Drag the blue ScreenSaverEngine icon to your dock.

    5. Now you can just click the dock icon whenever you want to launch your Screen Saver.

     

    - or -


    Option 2 (Adding a "Lock Screen" button near the Clock, in the OSX Menu Bar)

    1. Open Finder and go to Applications>Utilities, and open the Keychain Access application.

    2. In the Keychain Access top menu bar, click "Keychain Access", then "Preferences"

    3. Check the box labeled "Show keychain status in menu bar"

     

    This will add a small lock icon to your mac's menu bar at the top. Whenever you want to start your screensaver or lock your computer, just click on the lock icon and click "Lock Screen".

     

     

    Hope this helps!

  • by Wan Zhenhuan,

    Wan Zhenhuan Wan Zhenhuan Mar 19, 2014 9:33 PM in response to scarro24
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    Mar 19, 2014 9:33 PM in response to scarro24

    Works like a charm. Thanks!

  • by alvordr,

    alvordr alvordr Jun 11, 2015 8:53 AM in response to Wan Zhenhuan
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    Jun 11, 2015 8:53 AM in response to Wan Zhenhuan

    While this isn't really a direct solution, I tried having the hot corner put the display to sleep, rather than the screensaver and this worked.  It also works for when you need it to wake to a password prompt to get back into the machine, assuming you have that setup.  The only thing you lose in this is the actual screensaver being turned on.  If that's not the big concern for some of the folks out there, then this may help.

  • by vmanfrommidlothian,

    vmanfrommidlothian vmanfrommidlothian Nov 17, 2015 6:25 AM in response to Michaël Betsch
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    Nov 17, 2015 6:25 AM in response to Michaël Betsch

    Just because it works for you every time doesn't mean it will work for everyone, every time. Does not work for me -

     

    I've resorted to a screen saver icon in the Dock.

  • by Meshy,

    Meshy Meshy Jun 2, 2016 3:16 PM in response to adburke1
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    Jun 2, 2016 3:16 PM in response to adburke1

    I faced this problem just now with OX el Cap, Fixed it as the following.

     

    Went to hot corners in preference Changed the behavior

    Tryied new behavior

    It worked.

     

    Also changed dock size not sure if this helped.

     

    Hope this helps other

     

    Cheerz

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