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Widgets outside of the dashboard
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A while ago I picked up a handy tip from these forums that detailed how to drag a widget onto the desktop so you have it there all the time (Hold down F13 when you're dragging a widget from the bar to the screen (or whatever key you have binded to show the dashboard)).
First of all, thanks for whoever posted it, really useful!
I was wondering if it was possible to actually *keep* it there even if you bring up the dashboard again! At the moment, if I have any widgets floated on the desktop, they vanish after I open the dashboard and then close it again, pretty annoying!
Anyone know a terminal command to make them stay there untill I close them manually? Or even a OS X hack perhaps.
Example;
Mr Widget is there..
I open the dashboard again..
Bye-bye Mr Widget
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That's the badger, just what I was looking for!
I really think Apple have missed out on a major thing for not being able to do this - It just seems silly the way it's done at the moment, I can see why people find it useful though.
Cheers for finding that for me, a great help
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Actually, you can do that with Dashboard. There's a defaults setting you can run at the Terminal to enable it. Let me see if I can find it. I have a widget on my desktop at all times.
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Found it.
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defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Found it.
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
He has that enabled. However, when you activate the dashboard layer, all desktop-level widgets get sucked into dashboard.
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^They shouldn't - worked like a charm here when trying it.
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I didn't have that enabled, now that I do, It works!
Thanks Fonzie and Stradlater!
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No problem Duracell, although I didn't actually help. but thanks
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