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Every boss key ever written assumes your hands are on the keyboard. They often aren't — you're scrolling, you're in a browser, you're holding a mouse and nothing else. Hunting for Ctrl+Alt+H in that moment is exactly the half-second that gives you away.
gohide can fire the same "hide everything" action from the mouse: shove the pointer into a screen corner, or press a side button. No key combination to remember, no visible reach for the keyboard.
Mouse triggers are a Pro feature.
What a hot corner is
A hot corner is a few pixels in the very corner of your screen. Push the pointer there and hold it for a moment, and gohide hides every app it manages — windows, taskbar buttons and tray icons — exactly as if you had pressed the hide-all hotkey.
The gesture is natural because a mouse cannot travel past a screen edge. You don't have to aim: throw the pointer up and to the right as hard as you like and it stops in the corner.
Setting it up
- Open Settings → Mouse triggers.
- Tick Hide all when the mouse hits a screen corner.
- Choose which corner. gohide confirms which corner just went live so a trigger you forgot about never surprises you.
The corner you pick matters, because Windows already owns some of them:
| Corner | What Windows uses it for |
|---|---|
| Top-right | Nothing on the desktop — the default, and the safest |
| Top-left | Close/back buttons in many maximized windows |
| Bottom-right | "Show desktop" — a click there minimizes everything |
| Bottom-left | The Start button on Windows 11 |
Top-right is the default for that reason. If you use a corner Windows also uses, you keep both behaviors — gohide doesn't take the corner away from Windows, it only watches it.
It won't fire twice
Two rules keep a hot corner from becoming a nuisance:
- A short dwell. Merely crossing the corner on the way somewhere else does nothing; the pointer has to stay there for a moment.
- Hysteresis. After it fires once, it will not fire again until the pointer has clearly left the corner. Parking the mouse in the corner — which people do — triggers one hide, not a hundred.
Mouse buttons
Under the same section you can assign a mouse button instead of (or as well as) a corner:
- Side button 1 / 2 — the back/forward buttons on most mice. These are the safe choice.
- Middle button — works, but think first: a middle click is also "open link in new tab" and "close tab", so every middle click anywhere would hide your apps.
The button keeps its normal job. gohide watches for it and hides your apps, but it does not swallow the click, so back still means back.
Holding a key with the button
If the middle button is the only spare one on your mouse, set Hold with it to Ctrl, Shift, Ctrl+Shift or Ctrl+Alt. The button then fires only while exactly those keys are held, so a plain middle click goes back to autoscrolling and opening links. With a key set, gohide also keeps that one click from the app under the pointer: Ctrl+middle-click hides your apps without opening a background tab as well.
Bringing everything back with the mouse
By default a mouse trigger only hides. Your hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H) or the tray menu brings everything back. If you would rather use the mouse both ways, turn it on in the same section:
- Show again by mouse (for the mouse button):
- Press again — one press hides, the next press shows everything again.
- Double-click — one press hides; a quick double press shows everything again. This is the safer choice, above all for the middle button: one stray click in a browser can't undo the hide.
- Hit the corner again to show everything — the hot corner works as a toggle.
Hiding is always instant: it never waits to see whether a second click is coming. For a moment right after a hide, gohide also ignores further presses, so a bouncy button or a nervous double click can't put your windows straight back on screen.
Multiple monitors
Corners are the four outer corners of your whole desktop, not of each screen. The corners where two monitors meet are ambiguous — the pointer passes straight through them onto the next screen — so gohide does not use them.
Pairs well with the privacy cover
A mouse trigger gets your windows down fast, but it leaves the desktop showing. Turn on the privacy cover and the same gesture also drops a full-screen image over the desktop, or brings a normal-looking app to the front as a cover story.
If you'd rather lock the machine outright, gohide has a lock-screen hotkey too — that one is free.
Free vs Pro
Hiding windows, taskbar buttons and tray icons with hotkeys is free for up to 3 apps — download gohide. Mouse and hot-corner triggers, the privacy cover, process suspend, unlimited apps and dynamic selection are part of gohide Pro — a one-time purchase, no subscription. See pricing.