Turning off the "activities" hotcorner at the top left?

Question

I am finding it hard to turn off the hotspots on the desktop (Ubuntu 18.04.2) at the top left corner that shows up with a miniature version of the windows I have available to switch to. The stuff I can think to search for like "activities hotspot ubuntu" are all too generic to get me there.

I checked gnome-shell extensions in Firefox, but I didn't see anything obviously it and am not very familiar with the interface yet. Does anyone know what to call this feature? I just want to turn it off because it false triggers all the time when I hit close buttons on a maximized application, and having two monitors makes this happen as well when on a second monitor that shows no floating taskbar.

Where are such configurations stored in the latest version?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '19 at 19:46

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You need to install No Topleft Hot Corner extension:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/118/no-topleft-hot-corner/

answered Feb 18 '19 at 19:46

Edvard Rejthar

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '19 at 21:54

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Start gnome-tweaks (tweaks) and turn this setting to OFF...

answered Feb 18 '19 at 21:54

heynnema

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My upvote doesn't show since I'm too new, but this worked great and gave me a desktop application to control my configuration settings again =) Thanks @heynnema! – Brian Neltner Feb 19 '19 at 13:34
@BrianNeltner you're very welcome! – heynnema Feb 19 '19 at 13:35
This setting doesn't appear for me in Gnome 3.30.2. Has it been removed? – Jonathan Holvey May 06 '19 at 11:41
@JonathanHolvey Still shows for me with 3.32. What version Ubuntu? – heynnema May 06 '19 at 15:20
I'm using Debian Buster. Could this be a Ubuntu only modification to Gnome? – Jonathan Holvey Jun 17 '19 at 22:35
@JonathanHolvey you could bring up dconf editor and search for hot-corners. – heynnema Jun 17 '19 at 23:37
I also run debian buster and am facing the same problem. I tried searching for hot-corners in dconf-editor. No results came. The No Topleft Hot Corner extension suggested by @edvard in the next answer worked though. – livinston Aug 14 '19 at 21:25

Turning off the "activities" hotcorner at the top left?

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