

Next to the text are two dropdown menus the first can be used to assign any of the function keys, F1 through F19 (your keyboard may not have all 19 function keys). In the Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts section, you can assign keystrokes or mouse buttons to perform specific tasks. Launch the Mission Control preference pane, as you did earlier. There are additional ways to access the Dashboard once you have turned the feature on: Pressing the F12 key will either display the Dashboard as a space that slides into place, replacing the current desktop or other active space, or as an overlay on top of the current desktop. There are a number of ways to access the Dashboard, though the most common is to use the F12 or the Fn + F12 keys (depending on the keyboard type you’re using). You can now quit the System Preferences.Make your selection from the dropdown menu.



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. Dashboard, the secondary desktop introduced with OS X Tiger, is gone, vamoosed, kaput it’s an ex-desktop.
