Mastering the basics of Dashboard won’t take you long at all:įlight Finder. They’re meant to display information, much of it from the Internet, and they’re written using Web programming languages like HTML and JavaScript. What they most resemble, actually, are little Web pages. These weird, hybrid entities aren’t really programs or documents. In any case, you now see the display shown in Figure 4-14. You can open it with a double-click or by using any of the usual program-opening tricks. Open Mission Control click the Dashboard thumbnail at the top left of the screen.ĭashboard is an actual program, with an icon of its own in your Applications folder. Swipe to the left with three fingers on your trackpad-repeatedly, if necessary-until you reach the far-left “desktop.” (On the Magic Mouse, swipe with two fingers.) In all of these cases, you can change the Dashboard keystroke to whatever you like, as described below. Or, on laptops where F12 is the key, you have to hold down the fn key (lower-left corner).

On the very oldest Yosemite-capable Macs, the Dashboard keystroke is usually F12. On recent Macs, F4 bears a Launchpad icon ( ) instead.

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