
Here’s how you turn on Dashboard, invoke it, and add what Apple calls a “Web Clip.”įirst, open System Preferences > Mission Control. From the Dashboard menu, choose either As Space or As Overlay.

The former displays your Dashboard widgets in their own space, whereas the latter overlays them on top of your Desktop. Next, you need to set how you’ll invoke Dashboard. To configure an F-key, choose it from the first Show Dashboard pop-up menu.There are three possibilities: an F-key, a mouse button click, or moving the mouse pointer into a particular corner of the screen. Press a modifier key like Command, Shift, Control, or Option to add it to the keystroke, as in Command-F11. For a mouse button, choose an item from the second Show Dashboard pop-up menu.To invoke Dashboard by moving the pointer into a corner, click Hot Corners, and in the dialog that appears, choose Dashboard from one of the four pop-up menus corresponding to a screen corner.Īgain, you can specify that a modifier key must also be down.Give it a try-Dashboard will load with some default widgets.

You can delete those you don’t want by clicking the minus button in the lower-left corner of the screen and then clicking the X button that appears on every widget. You add more widgets by clicking the plus button, though creating a Web Clip requires more work.

MAC OS DASHBOARD WIDGETS MOVE AROUND PLUS.
