The forums are all lit up about the wonderful new dashboard background in Mavericks. Mine still has the grid background that has been around in the last versions of OS X. What to do?
Hello kaykrum,
This can be achieved by going into System Preferences, then to Mission Control, then unchecking the checkbox labelled "Show Dashboard as a space."
Tip: In OS X Mountain Lion, if you want to change Dashboard back to its OS X Lion and earlier interface, open Mission Control preferences in System Preferences and uncheck the "Show Dashboard as a space" option.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2492
Cheers,
Allen
Sorry, this didn't help. I'm on Mavericks, not Mountain Lion. And I want the dashboard to be a space, but I want a space with the cool color the adverts rave about and not just a grid-like canvas background. How do I get a different color for the background of the dashboard as a space??
I think you must be mistaken. There's no fancy color in the Mavericks dashboard background. It's actually quite ugly... A grey grid. Everyone is trying to change it with a custom wallpaper. You can change it to whatever photo you want, even your desktop wallpaper, by following the tips I posted here. It's prettier than the default Mavericks grey grid.
Technically, your instructions were perfect. Aesthetically it's not quite perfect. What happens is: the top half of the dashboard background is the lower half of my picture, the bottom half of the dashboard background is a neutral light blue (which goes fine with the picture). So it is not exactly "the whole thing", but it's better than the yukky stuff Apple has on default there.
So: thanks! You helped!
How does one undo this to get the grid back? I did this and then decided that if I delete the png files from the system, it'll return the grid. It didn't.
Nice!
This worked perfectly for me!
My dashboard still has canvas background in Mavericks. Why? or How to change to new color?
