F12 shortcut for Dashboard

[Peter Griffin]

I've just got my iBook and left all the factory settings intact. When I check under system preferences>dashboard/expose I find that the shortcut for dashboard is F12. WHen I press F12 nothing happens. Sometimes the eject icon will appear but other than that I have to drag my mouse to the dashboard icon in order for it to open. Am I doing something wrong here or is it the iBook?

 

[reh]

I just changed mine to F8. If you don't want to do that, you could try holding down the "fn" key while hitting F12. That might work.

 

[Heb1228]

I have a hot corner set up for the top-lefthand corner for Dashboard. I use that much more often than I hit F12. Try it and see if you like it.

 

[Counterfit]

I think F12 is open (it is only F12 and nothing else) on all Apple laptops. Try trashing the preferences for Dashboard. They're found in: /~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist and /~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.client.plist where ~ is your home folder.

 

[faintember]

You should just have to hold down "fn" while pressing F12, as reh originally said. It works that way on my TiPB.

 

[KALIF]

edit: sry I figured it out =) ;/ Second day on mac and OS X. =)

 

[steelfist]

well, I'l share my ibook keyboard config

I have All window's default button as F9,

since, i don't use application windows, I removed it,
so I made F10 as show desktop, and F11 as dashboard. one button away from the original place isn't that bad 😀