Questions tagged [dashboard]
Not everything you do on your Mac requires a heavy-duty application. For those smaller tasks, macOS features Dashboard. Dashboard provides access to several fun and functional, mini applications called widgets.
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What’s the meaning of this square with a down arrow icon on my HomePod in Control Center?
This is first time I see this icon.
What’s it’s meaning?
It’s in Control Center. The HomePods are in “Salon”.
I’m wondering about the icon on the right:
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How do I make iClip Lite work in newer versions of Mac OS X?
iClip Lite is a Clipboard Manager dashboard widget, which won an Apple Design Award back in 2006. It's pretty great.
Unfortunately, the widget appears to have broken all the way back in Snow Leopard†....
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Where can I find dashboard widgets on OS Catalina?
Here's what I'm talking about:
I couldn't find it anymore, I used to set it as a hot corner in System Preferences > Mission Control, I tried to search the keyword "Dashboard" in System Preferences ...
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Quickly view the monthly/yearly calendar
Before mac os catalina, we could press F12 and see the dashboard including the monthly calendar.
On mac os catalina, dashboard has been removed. Any tips on quickly viewing the current month's/year'...
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How to recover dashboard stickies on macOS Catalina?
According to the article Apple Confirms Dashboard is Going Away After 14 Years, dashboard has been removed within macOS 10.15, Catalina. I had some Stickies with information stored in dashboard and I ...
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F4 will not show Dashboard
I just got a brand new Apple space grey wireless keyboard. Everything is great except that F4 stopped working to launch Dashboard. Instead, F4 launches Launchpad, something I don't use at all.
I have ...
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Looking for Working Weather Dashboard Widget
So the weather widget apple includes with macOS no longer works. It's been broken for a while now, I suspect it's never coming back. Especially since it was powered by Yahoo. Also Apple's "dashboard ...
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I cannot add a Web page into my Dashboard
I want to store a website in my Dashboard, but the option to do so appears greyed out.
How do I open the website in Dashboard?
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macOS - Display Dashboard on external display
I have a multi-monitor setup with my MacBook Pro. I have configured Dashboard to appear as Overlay in the Mission Control preference.
However, whenever I summon the Dashboard it always appears on ...
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How do I get the 'Calendar' app to display on the Dashboard?
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As per the title. I've tried using ctrl up-arrow and dragging onto that 'desktop' but my drag is rejected...
I want to be able to see my appointments at a glance in the Dashboard, ...
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Is Dashboard on life support?
In the past week or so Apple's language translation widget (which uses SYSTRAN for translation) has stopped working, and in searching for a replacement widget I noticed that a lot of former widget ...
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Where can I find the number of records for a specific entity in new CloudKit Dashboard?
In the previous version of Dashboard I was able to preview how many records were created by users of my app. But in the new dashboard, there is no info about the number of created addresses in the ...
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Why won't my macbook show the dashboard or fullscreen windows?
I am "stuck" on the desktop. Clicking the dashboard icon does nothing, I cannot use the 4-finger swipe gestures to move to or view the dashboard or any application windows in fullscreen (yes, I have ...
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Web clip widget in Notification Center
With the old Dashboard it's possible to create a web clip widget from Safari.
As it seems like the Dashboard is getting phased out and the Notification Center is definitely a handy place to have ...
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How to convert OS X Dashboard widget to desktop app?
I would like to convert a OS X Dashboard widget to a desktop app, namely the Stocks widget. I understand I could move the widget to the desktop using terminal to enable developer mode for Dashboard ...
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Dashboard contact widgets can't find any results?
I have 7000+ contacts synched to my Apple iCloud account. I can see them with the contact app when I search for some of them via spotlight, as shown in the next image:
But in Dashboard Contact widget,...
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Dashboard is stuck
That's it. On my MacBook Pro the dashboard is stuck. I can't click the arrow in the bottom right corner, clicking more widgets doesn't do anything, clicking the safari icon on web clip opens safari ...
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Dashboard massively consume CPU and memory
I have set my dashboard as overlapped in system preferences, and I despite I have few widgets on it (just a calculator, a calendar and a clock), it takes all my CPU and memory:
For now I've just ...
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Make OS X Dashboard Widgets appear in Desktop
Dashboard Widgets would be much more useful as MenuBar apps, but some aren't. Is there a way to force OS X to display active Widgets in the MenuBar or as application windows?
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Is it possible to take a screenshot of a dashboard in OS X?
I'm using a Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ 5 command to take a screenshot of a desktop, but it doesn't work if I switch to the dashboard.
Is there any way to take a screenshot of dashboard elements?
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How to remap F4 to Dashboard or Notifications on a MacBook Pro in Yosemite?
I had this working fine in Tiger thru Mavericks, but it broke in Yosemite. Pressing F4 now launches Launchpad, and only fnF4 triggers Dashboard.
Launchpad is useless compared to Spotlight or even ...
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Live dashboard for presentations
I run my school's theatre, and I'm looking for some kind of software that we can put on the projector screen before our school assembly. I want to have some elements update themselves automatically (...
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Allow Dashboard access to Calendar
I clicked a date on the Calendar Dashboard widget and was prompted whether I wanted to allow Dashboard access to my Calendar. Not realising what this meant, I did not grant access. Now, I would like ...
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Use Shift+F12 in an application
I am using an application which has a shortcut that uses Shift + F12. But when I do that on my mac, it goes to the dashboard. Which is very irritating. How can I quickly bypass that feature and send ...
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Is it possible to reassign the "Pinch with thumb and three fingers" gesture to activate Dashboard instead of Launchpad?
I don't really have a use for Launchpad, but the gesture to me makes sense for Dashboard. I experimented a little with BetterTouchTool, but it doesn't have the gesture available, and I'm not sure it ...
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What's the best way to edit the look and feel of the dashboard
I need advice if there's a best method in changing the look and feel of the existing dashboard. I've already mocked up the look and feel that I wanted.
I wanted a method where I can also let other ...
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Putting "widgets" on Mac desktop
Is there any software to put certain "widgets" on the desktop, such as notes or a clock? I would like to have apps permanently affixed there, rather than being open as separate apps or hovering over ...
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Dashboard widgets run in background [10.9]
I have a webclip in my dashboard on mavericks with play.spotify.com in it and i like to control my music from there, but as soon as i go out of the dashboard the music stops.
I had this working a ...
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Hot corners for mouse only
When I work with a mouse I want to use hot corners. When I work with the Trackpad, I don't. Is there an option for this? The hot corners should only work if I used my mouse to activate it.
I'm not ...
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Changing dashboard space
I realized the other day that I never use the dashboard and had no desire to. So I decided to disable it. But I feel as if the 3 finger swipe to the right that had displayed it is now wasted. Can ...
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Can I disable Dashboard in Mountain Lion?
I'm wondering if there's a way to disable the dashboard in Mountain Lion. I never use it and I think it's consuming processor and memory powers.
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Is there a dashboard widget that has extended Unicode characters?
I've been looking for a decent Unicode widget that allows access to some of the weirder characters like ✓ and ✗.
Does such a beast exist? I've tried a few and all of them seem kind of ...
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How do I restore Dashboard widget list? (Launchpad-style adding)
When using a tutorial to clear Launchpad of its mess I had in /Applications, I accidentally cleared Dashboard's list of widgets when I click the (+) button to add downloaded widgets at the same time, ...
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Screen Forced Away from Dashboard
I have this issue on my Macbook Air that happens often if I select a gadget on the dashboard. I get forced away from the dashboard to the Desktop. I noticed if I previously selected one gadget and I ...
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Dashboard or iCal hang with 100% CPU usage
Running on Mac OS X 10.7.4, issues list this seem to be riddled in Google searches but nothing like my issue, which persists even when I take all the steps. My story...
Brought up Dashboard today ...
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Is there a dashboard widget for displaying (and monitoring or reloading) plain text files?
I use todo.txt as a todo list manager, and so my todo list is saved as a text file. I'd like for there to be a widget that monitors text files, so that it's not on my desktop, but in my dashboard. Is ...
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Sticky note widgets each have their cursor blinking as if active all together
Using a new MBP Retina at work with Mountain Lion. I always used the sticky dashboard widgets to organize my oh-so-chaotic life on my Lion MBP.
Now that I use them in 10.8 (around 16-20 stickies) I ...
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How can I move Dashboard widgets to the desktop in Lion?
In the OS X Terminal, there is a command that allows me to drag Dashboard widgets onto my desktop. In OS X Lion, the Dashboard became a Space. I am no longer able to use this command. What is a ...
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How do I permanently show my dashboard on a separate monitor?
I work in multi monitor setup.
I have some important information available in the dashboard and want it to be always visible on one of the monitor.
Is there a way (w/ external software or not) to do ...
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How to change background of Dashboard in Lion
I find the default background of Dashboard in Lion quite boring. I know how to change the defaultdesktop.jpg for the login screen, and I was wondering if there was a similar process for Dashboard. ...
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How do I move widgets on the Dashboard that are out of the viewing area?
I have a couple of widgets in Dashboard that moved outside of the viewing area. I can only see them in Mission Control.
How do I move them back?
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What is another source for Dashboard widgets?
On the Apple Dashboard widgets page, the most recent app (found at the top of the Just Added section) is The Weather Channel Widget, released on February 14, 2011. Where can I find some more recent ...
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How do I prevent widgets from moving around on the dashboard?
Is there a way to disable moving widgets around in the dashboard? I have a neat layout all set up, and would like to prevent accidental widget movements.
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My dashboard widgets are “inactive” since Lion upgrade
Since my upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, my dashboard widgets are inactive. I can enter the dashboard, move widgets around, add and remove them, but their content is not updated and I cannot ...
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How can I Transfer Dashboard Information from one computer to another?
How is it possible to transfer all my information from dashboard(in stickies) to my new macbook pro? Is there an easy file just to transfer or do I have to copy and paste them to an email? Also I have ...
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Web clips on Dashboard not always updating correctly in OS X (Lion)
I am having problems with Web Clips. Had the problem in OS X Leopard and now in Lion.
My problem is that I have clipped the "Major Stock Indexes" part of this page: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/page/...
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Stock widget doesn't save list of stocks
I am running Lion and I wanted to add certain stocks to the Stock widget. I was able to add them fine and remove the default ones but everytime I go back to Dashboard the Stock widget is reset and the ...
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Use widgets on Desktop Lion
How can I use my widgets on the desktop in Lion? I have done
defaults write com.apple.dashboard demoed yes
But, when I click and hold and hit dashboard, it stays on the dashboard. How can I use ...
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