On Apr 4, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
It's important to make mention of something here that chris failed to explain.
And, probably not purposefully.
Yes, 99.99999 percent of the time, F12 will! bring up your dashboard, but there
are two situations where this might not work.
1. You've remapped the dashboard to another key aside from F12. For example,
in ProTools, F12 can be used as the command for record. I don't normally use
that key to record... normally I use numpad 3, but the point is, I did! go in
and remap the dashboard to my F11 key instead, as to the best of my knowledge,
ProTools doesn't use F11 for anything, therefore there is no key conflict. I
know most of you don't use ProTools, but my point still remains. Just because
you don't use PT, means nothing. That was only one example of many. Point is,
you may have the key remapped. So if F12 doesn't open your dashboard with your
widgets, like weather, etc. that might be why.
2. I said there were two situations. The second is, if you hit F12, and your
volume either gets turned up, or you hear the volume pop sound. This means
that you probably have your function keys set to hardware, not software, which
is how OSX by the way is configured by default unless you go in and change it.
Therefore, you can do one of two things.
2.1. Instead of pressing F12, try hitting fn+F12. By holding down your FN key
in combination with any of the function keys, you swap the function keys to the
other state. So, for example. If you have your keys set as hardware, like
they are by default, then holding down the FN key with any of the standard 12
function keys, F1 to F12 will switch them to software, therefore passing them
through as standard commands to OSX. The same is true the other way. If
you've set them to software, then be forewarned that hitting fn+any of the keys
will result in the key acting as hardware. So, let's say you want to turn down
the volume in this case. You'd need to then hit fn+F11, not just F11 alone.
2.2. The other thing is you can do as said above and set your keys to
software. To do this:...
2.2.1. Go to system preferences, then keyboard.
2.2.2. Select the general tab.
2.2.3. Find the checkbox to use all function keys as standard keys, and check
it with Vo+Space.
2.2.4. Then, finally, hit Command+W to close system Preferences.
Now, if you hit F12, your dashboard should pop up, assuming you haven't
remapped that key.
Remapping those keys kind of gets out of the scope of this message, but if
anyone needs an audio tutorial on how to remap certain keys, let me know, and
I'll make one, very gladly. I'd be more than willing to do that, if it's
needed.
Sorry to possibly hijack this thread, but I just wanted to be sure that people
don't get themselves confused if they try bringing up the dashboard like Chris
said with F12, and nothing happens.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries"
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Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: weather aps for the mac?
Are you talking about the weather widget when you hit F12? If so, mine
gives a 6-day forecast in a group. When I interact with that I can step
though each of the days to get the basic high/low partly cloudy type stuff.
CB
On 4/3/15 11:21 AM, ted phillips wrote:
Hi all. I am wondering if there are any good weather programs for the mac that
will give detailed information? I have the stock weather widget, but it is
only giving a little info for one day.
Thanks all
Ted Phillips
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