So, in this way you can add widgets to your Mac desktop. Instead of Yes, you need to type No after the command and hit Enter to execute the command. Only different would be in the first command, To disable Dashboard Development Mode, you need to follow the same steps as we have followed in the first section. Now don’t release the mouse button and press F12 and drag it to a preferred location on Dashboard. Once the widget is on desktop, release the mouse button.Īdditional Tip: You can always place the widgets back in Dashboard, for that: Click on widget and press mouse button.
Select the widget and press the mouse button. Remove checkmark beside Show Dashboard as Space (in case of Mountain Lion or Mavericks)
Now that you are done with Terminal commands, you need to follow some additional steps: Once done, you need to follow a few more steps: Step 3: Now type the below command on your Terminal to end the current session: This will make your Dock vanish for a second. Note: Make sure the case of the text matches as the above. Step 2: Now type the below command into Terminal: Note: Please make sure you enter the command in a single line in the Terminal app. Step 1: Click on Go->Utilties-> Terminal.
We need to enable Dashboard development mode using Terminal. But Dashboard eventually went the way of the iPod classic, disappearing for good a few years ago.You can get your widgets on your desktop using Terminal. For a long time, the Mac hosted widgets in a separate screen layer called Dashboard, which would appear to one side of (or later overtop) the desktop. This isn’t the Mac’s first flirtation with widgets, of course. But on the Mac, widgets remain banished to column just offscreen, as part of (peculiarly enough) Notification Center-where they are all too often forgotten. IPadOS 15 brought widgets to the Home screen of Apple’s tablet line, echoing a move made on the iPhone in iOS 14. There isn’t really any single analogue to that on the Mac, and while Apple doesn’t have to get rid of all the tools that are already on the platform, it would be handy if it could beef up the version of the Share sheet in macOS to add features more akin to iOS-such as the ability to run Shortcuts. SharePlay wasn’t available in the initial macOS Monterey but it is in the latest beta.īut the Share menu has ended up growing and becoming increasingly useful on iOS, in part because it acts as a central clearinghouse for sharing data that’s quickly and universally comprehensible.