Mar 23 2007
Configuring Constant Dashboard Widgets
By default, Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets reside within Dashboard, a hidden space you reveal by clicking a short cut link or key. You can, however, force Mac OS X to detach a widget from Dashboard:
- Open Terminal
- Type: defaults write com.apple.Dashboard devmodeYES
- Quit Terminal then press F12 to expose Dashboard
- To force a Widget to stay open, click and hold on it while pressing F12 again.
The co-worker who told me about this trick says you may have to login/out a couple of times to get it to work.
On a related note, Yahoo’s just released Yahoo Widgets 4, which is a much slicker, updated version of their own widget engine (which was known as Konfabulator before Yahoo bought it). Yahoo Widgets run under Mac OS X or Windows XP/Vista and do much of what the Dashboard and Vista Widgets engines do (and in some cases, Dashboard widgets have been ported to run under Yahoo’s engine).
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