As you noticed those keys are used for other functions on a laptop. Go to Systems Prefs/Dashboard and Expose, and remap the triggers for Expose. Yahoo widgets use less processor overhead than the Apple (hawg) widgets. I have widgets disabled. Link to a simple Dashboard On/Off pref pane below...jf
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18261,performance On Dec 30, 2005, at 12:06 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > As a by product of a new job, I have a new powerbook and can get back > into the world of the Mac. It's a shiny new 15" and it's amazin how > just getting off the clunky old titanium and decripit dell has kicked > me into development life again. > > It's my first time in Tiger though, and I've hit a few questions so > far: > > * F8 through F11 are supposed to do Expose things, but when I press F8 > to F10, all I get is a transparant icon on the screen with a 'No > Entry' style sign below it. Any idea how I get the expose features to > work? > > * F7 has a pair of overlapped windows. Any idea what it's for? I can't > find anything using just F7 in the Sys Prefs->Keyboard->Shortcuts > dialog. > > I'm still dithering as to which of Yahoo Widgets (formerly > Konfabulator) or Dashboard to use. The only other Tiger thing that has > an effect on me is that I can now run Java 5.0. > > Thanks, > > Hen > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2102 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051230/1c387c1a/attachment.bin
