How to move the "hot corner" of the messaging tray in gnome-shell?

Question

I have two monitors, side by side, and my main monitor is on the left.

In Gnome Shell, the task-bar can be quickly looked at by moving the mouse to the bottom right hot corner, but since I have a monitor to the right, it is really hard to not simply fly over to the next monitor when trying to access it.

Can I move that hot corner so that it is on the left bottom corner?

Answer 1

You can use this GNOME extension to change the messaging tray hot corner. But, it also moves the icons to the left side.

• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/157/left-message-tray/

If you only want to change the hot corner and not the icons, you can use this extension:

• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/309/hot-corn-dog/

By default, it only changes the hot corner of the overview. You can customize it to only change the hot corner of the messaging tray by following the instructions provided here:

• https://euhiemf.github.io/Hot-Corn-Dog/#customization

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To summarize the instructions, open the js file

gedit ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js

Edit the following line:

const SYSTEM_TRAY_HOT_CORNER = right;

to

const SYSTEM_TRAY_HOT_CORNER = left;

Answer 2

I'm not sure if there's another way to do this, but you can find an extension that allows this here: Left/Middle Message Tray

You may need to hit Alt+F2 and enter the command 'r' (without quotes) to enable the extension.