You can switch into and out of the Dashboard space using the Spaces bar, keyboard shortcuts, or gestures. As Space: The Dashboard environment is treated as a separate desktop space.The Dashboard is turned off and can’t be used. Use the dropdown menu to select one of the following:.Locate the dropdown menu next to the Dashboard text.Select the Mission Control preference pane.Launch System Preferences by clicking or tapping its icon in the Dock, or selecting System Preferences from the Apple menu.(Use the Mission Control preference pane to enable Dashboard, as well as to select what mode it will operate in.) It’s an easy process to turn Dashboard back on: But that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy it for now. In that case, the Dashboard environment may just not make a lot of sense anymore. And if rumors are to be believed, some iOS apps, beyond those included with Mojave, may in the future make the jump to macOS.
Dashboard widgets, those mini-applications, haven’t seen a lot of activity from developers in quite a while, and most of the widgets for Mac can be replaced with apps from the Mac App Store. Now, having Dashboard disabled by default may be an indication of what is in store for Dashboard down the road.
If you’re a fan of Dashboard and all of its funky Mac widgets, such as weather, an assortment of clocks, a calendar, local movie listings, stocks, and whatever else you may have loaded into the Dashboard environment, the good news is that the Dashboard isn’t really gone, Mojave just turned it off by default. With the advent of macOS Mojave, the Dashboard and all of those productive widgets for Mac are gone. It doesn’t use much, but the Dashboard does take up system memory.Dashboard, the secondary desktop introduced with OS X Tiger, is gone, vamoosed, kaput it’s an ex-desktop. (You can press Fn-F12, click in an empty space in the Dashboard or press Command-Right Arrow, by the way.) The second reason is to simply conserve used memory.
One is the possibility that you might accidentally get into it and not know how to escape from the Dashboard. There are a couple of reasons for disabling the Dashboard. Click the dropdown menu and choose “Off” to disable the Dashboard Why Bother Disabling the Dashboard? Off, of course, disables feature completely. With As Overlay selected, Fn-F12 will bring the Dashboard to the front of your screen, overlaid on your desktop. If you choose As Space, the Dashboard will be a separate virtual screen that you access by pressing Command-Left Arrow. Click on the dropdown menu, and you can choose Off, As Space, or As Overlay. There’s now an option in this preferences page to disable the Dashboard. To disable the Dashboard, start in the Mission Control pane of System Preferences To do so, start off in the System Preferences app and then click Mission Control. The process is much easier and safer in macOS Sierra. That would disable the Dashboard completely, but you had to be brave enough to do it. Still in the Terminal, you would type: killall Dock Then, you would need to kill the currently-running Dashboard by reloading the Dock. To do so, you would launch Terminal and then run the following command: defaults write mcx-disabled -boolean YES I’m going to show you an easier way to disable the Dashboard below, but let me start with the geeky way. On previous versions of OS X, you could only disable the Dashboard from the Terminal.