Dark mode, accent colour and tinted icons
Appearance settings go well past light and dark: accent colours, icon styles and even the colour of folders.
Tips tagged #desktop
Stop the desktop appearing every time you click the wallpaper
By default a click on any visible scrap of wallpaper sweeps all your windows aside. You can restrict it.
Tidy a chaotic desktop with Stacks
One command sweeps every loose file into neat piles by kind, and keeps doing it for the new ones.
Put widgets on the desktop
Widgets do not have to stay inside Notification Centre, where you never go looking for them.
Run a command by pushing the pointer into a corner
Each corner of the screen can trigger an action, and a modifier key stops it firing every time you reach for the scroll bar.
Give each job its own desktop
Mission Control shows every open window at once and lets you split your work across desktops you swipe between.
Work on one thing at a time with Stage Manager
It parks everything you are not using down the side of the screen and lets you build sets of windows that travel together.
Pick a wallpaper that follows the time of day
Dynamic and aerial wallpapers change by themselves, and your own photo is one click away in the Finder.