Open the “Dashboard” dropdown menu and select “As overlay.”.
Deselect the “Show Dashboard as Space” item.
Navigate to “System Preferences > Mission Control.”.
Select the “Apple” icon in your Mac’s menu bar.
If you’re on one of these newer versions of macOS, then you’ll also need to setup Mission Control so that it doesn’t move the Dashboard into a Space: If you’re running macOS Mountain Lion or later, then the Dashboard is considered part of Mission Control and is treated as a Space.
The Dock will disappear for a moment, and then relaunch.
Copy/paste the following into the Terminal:.
Next, press the “Enter” key on your keyboard.
Copy/paste the following command into the Terminal window:ĭefaults write devmode YES.
Navigate to “Applications > Utilities” and launch the Terminal application.