disable/move hotspot (activities launcher)

**chickenpoxparty** · December 9th, 2011

Hi all, first post for me, hope this is the right forum.

I switched from unity to gnome last night and im liking it a lot (especially with all the extensions you can get over at https://extensions.gnome.org/.

The only thing i would like to change is the behavior of the hotspot in the top-left corner. Id prefer to disable it completely since using the super key does exactly the same thing and sometimes the activity menu gets activated when i hover my mouse to close to the corner.

Ofcourse ive already googled for a solution but the only one i found (http://askubuntu.com/questions/5573/...ivities-button) doesnt work for me since my panel.js is different from the one mentioned in the link.

So, can anyone tell me how i can disable the hotspot functionality in Gnome 3.2? Thanks a lot!

**chickenpoxparty** · December 10th, 2011

Right, found the solution:

1. Backup layout.js:

sudo cp /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.js /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.bak

2. Open layout.js:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.js

3. In layout.js, look for the line: this._corner = new Clutter.Rectangle

4. 4 lines down (under opacity):

change reactive: true --> reactive: false

5. Save changes to layout.js

6. Alt-F2 - R

and done.