Dashboard Expos

Dashboard & Exposé

Dashboard & Exposé preferences enable you to customize the way the Dashboard and Exposé features work and to set "hot corners" that activate or prevent the activation of the screen saver feature.

Tip

• I explain how to use Dashboard in Chapter 10, Exposé in Chapter 4, and Mac OS X's built-in screen saver later in this chapter.

To set hot corners

In the Dashboard & Exposé preferences pane (Figure 19), choose an option from the pop-up menu (Figure 20) for the screen corner you want to configure. The option you choose determines what happens when you move your mouse pointer to that corner of the screen:

• All Windows uses Exposé to display all open window. This is the same as pressing with default Exposé settings.

• Application Windows uses Exposé to display all windows for the active application. This is the same as pressing with default Exposé settings.

• Desktop uses Exposé to move all windows aside so you can see the Desktop. This is the same as pressing with default Exposé settings.

• Dashboard displays Dashboard's widgets This is the same as pressing with default Dashboard settings..

• Start Screen Saver immediately displays the screen saver.

• Disable Screen Saver prevents the screen saver from automatically starting.

• does nothing.

Figure 19. Default settings in the Dashboard & Expos preferences pane.

Figure 20. Use this pop-up menu to configure hot corners.

To set Dashboard and Exposé keyboard shortcuts

In the Dashboard & Exposé preferences pane (Figure 19), choose an option from the Keyboard Shortcuts pop-up menu for the feature you want to configure (Figure 21).

Figure 21. Use this pop-up menu to set the keyboard shortcut to invoke Dashboard and Exposé features.

Tips

• Right and Left on the Keyboard Shortcuts pop-up menu (Figure 21) refer to the and keys.

• Shift, Control, Option, and Command on the Keyboard Shortcuts pop-up menu (Figure 21) refer to the ,, , and keys.