Hot corners in XFCE

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#1

I like the hot corners in Gnome and I’m trying to replicate it in XFCE with Xfdashboard.

Since xfce4-hotcorner-plugin is not in any official repo, I followed the instruction in GitHub (https://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin).

However, I got some errors after the third line:

[USER@linux-oerl xfce4-hotcorner-plugin]$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .
-- Checking for modules 'libxfce4panel-1.0;libxfce4ui-1;libwnck-3.0'
--   No package 'libxfce4panel-1.0' found
--   No package 'libxfce4ui-1' found
--   No package 'libwnck-3.0' found
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:363 (message):
  A required package was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:528 (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
  CMakeLists.txt:11 (PKG_CHECK_MODULES)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/path/to/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

I tried to re-install the last version of the packages that are not found (libxfce4panel-1.0, libxfce4ui-1, and libwnck-3.0 -not found anywhere-) with no luck after that.

Any tip about how to xfce4-hotcorner-plugin working or any alternative in openSUSE?

Thanks!

#2

You can absolutely do it with KDE’s window manager, KWIN.

I did it about a year ago in Tumbleweed. I don’t recall it being very difficult, and you should be able to find some additional info on it with Google. I can’t remember the exact steps I took, but my silly video is still up on Youtube, where I was playing around with my Xfce/Kwin setup.

https://youtu.be/WFopAOB5E0g