This Windows program was born out of experiencing the feature on Linux many years ago. Later, it made its way to the Apple/Mac interface. I thought it a novel concept and thought it'd be nice to have it on Windows, so I got on Google and starting searching for Hot Corner apps for Windows. I found quite a few; but none would work the way I thought they should with two and/or more monitors. Most apps would only work on the primary monitor only. I think I found one app that would work on all monitors, but all respective corners would perform the same action. I was looking for different actions for each respective corner. After all, I have three monitors, that's 12 programmable corners, in my mind, at least.
I gave up looking for a while. Eventually, I thought to try to look again. Certaintly, after all these years, someone was able to make a Windows hot corner app that knows how to handle the additional corners.... or so I thought.
Still, nope.
My day job is working with applicaitons and services like Active Directory, AzureAD, and Microsoft 365. So, I thought I was proficent enough in PowerShell by this point to making an app myself.
So, using Notepad++, my PowerShell knowledge, DuckDuckGo, Google, and a PowerShell terminal, I set out to learning PowerShell GUI Forms....
"Hawt Koners Tool" is the result.
~geektbee
There's not really an installation. Just extract the files to somewhere you can find them. We recommend C:\Program Files\HKT\ or C:\Program Files\HawtKoners\. But if you want the Portable feature, you'll need to place them in a folder where your account has Read & Write permission, like your DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, OwnCloud, Syncthing, flash drive, or whatever you chose for your portable service.
If you try to run the initial PS1 script willy-nilly, a terminal/command window will open. Closing it can cause errors and such. Therefore, we recommend running the file using the run.cmd that's provided.
Corner layout design: Each configuration for each corner has three options:
- Disabled
- Keyboard Hotkey
- PowerShell Command.
Each option that's not in use becomes greyed-out until that radio button is selected. I found that helps in times of troubleshooting.
The "Identify" button in action, shows which Tab goes with which display. Does not conforms to what's in Windows Settings, because I couldn't figure out how they did that.
The "Settings" tab: Mostly just a place for some little helpers and conveniences.
- Windows 11 Pro x64
- Some full-screen applications (games, in my experience) know how to ignore the HKT while it's running. Other full-screen applicaitons don't ignore it and can wind up throwing you for a loop. It seems to be related to Admin Vs. Limited privledges.
- Example: Genshin Impact, since it runs in elevated Administrator mode, ignores HKT since HKT runs in limited mode. But Destiny 2 runs in limited mode like HKT defaults. It took me a pretty minute to figure out why my Ghost menu kept activating....
- ISSUE BY-DESIGN: Changing, adding, subtracting, etc monitors/screens, whether physically or in Windows Settings, has the potential to misconfigure HKT settings; you'll more than likely have to re-configure them if you add, change, and/or remove screens.