How to trigg applets with hot-corner?

Budgie Applets
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hi,
Is there a way to use Hot-Corner to display applets such as app-launcher, budgie-menu or others?
Which custom commands to use?
I wish I had app-launcher or budgie-menu in a corner of the screen.

Thx

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Interesting question. In a dirty way, it is possible to use a virtual keypress event by xdotool, as long as the applet is placed in exactly the same position in the panel. Apart from the menu, that is a tricky condition. It coul be done in a clean way if we’d extend the applet’s code with a module to listen to hotcorners. With our own applets, that is an interesting feature request.

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For the budgie-menu, we just need to press the “windows” button, so what is the command to simulate the “windows-key” and toggle the budgie-menu if any?

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Kind of related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/630228/how-can-i-open-a-menu-with-a-shortcut-key-if-no-shortcut-key-exists-for-the-menu

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Thx vlijm,

With xdotool already installed, the tricks is easy to do and display budgie-menu with hot-corner applet. Simply add: xdotool key Super_L to a corner custom action command.

Example, xdotool key F12 will display Tilix/quake mode

and so on…

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Right! I didn’t mean the specific case :slight_smile: