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Do you ever get frustrated of going into Dashboard every time you want to access a widget with important information? There’s good news – with a simple Terminal command and the click of the mouse you can have any widget you like run outside of the Dashboard. Please note however that the widget will always be the front most window, so be aware that it may block content from other windows depending on where you place it.
How To Get Games On Your Mac Dashboard Settings
To locate Terminal simply navigate to your Applications > Utilities and within the Utilities folder you will locate Terminal.
Then simply enter the following then press the return key:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
Then enter the following then press the return key:
How To Get Games On Your Mac Dashboard App
killall Dock
You’ll also need to enter System Preferences, navigate to Mission Control settings, and make sure “Show Dashboard as a Space” is NOT checked. Now when you go to your Dashboard (by pressing function+f12 on Apple’s wireless keyboard), you can now click the widget, and hold that click while using the Dashboard shortcut once more. The widget you clicked on will now remain visible, even though the rest of the widgets disappear. You can continue working in any application, and the widget will stay put.
Should you wish to put the widget back into the dashboard all your need to do is click on the widget and hold then press F4 to launch dashboard and upon letting go of the mouse you will notice that the widget in question will pop back into the dashboard at that point in time.
Should you wish to completely disable this feature just go back to Terminal and enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode NO
Then enter the following then press the return key:
killall Dock
That’s all there is to it! For more helpful tips for your Apple devices, check out our full collection of tutorials by visiting our How-To category!
Apple provides a digital version of that old standby, the sliding tile game. Tile Game is a Dashboard widget on your Mac, so you can display it at any time by pressing the correct function key (F4 or F12, depending on the keyboard your Mac uses).
If you’re using a trackpad, display Mission Control (by swiping upward with three fingers) and click the Dashboard thumbnail.
Check out the Tile Game widget on a Dashboard.
If the Tile Game widget doesn’t appear on your Dashboard, click the Add button (bearing the plus-sign icon) at the lower left to display your available widgets. Click the Tile Game icon, and El Capitan adds it to your Dashboard.
Click the Tile Game window once to randomize the tiles and then click again to start playing. To move a tile to the free space, click the tile. The object of the game, of course, is to restore the image to its original pristine condition!
You can return to your applications and your El Capitan Desktop at any time by pressing the Esc key again or by pressing the Dashboard function key again.
One nice thing about Dashboard game widgets is that most of them save the current game (or position) when you close the Dashboard. That way, you can easily resume the game after you . . . well, get real work done.
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