12 May, 2009

How to place widget in desktop?

This tutorial will walk you through the steps on how to place widget in dashboard to your desktop. But this trick will only work on dashboard in development mode. So we need to set the dashboard into devmode.

  1. Open Terminal.app (in Finder press Command + Shift + U, will bring you to Utilities Folder, then find the Terminal.app)
  2. Copy and Paste the following to Terminal, line by line and press return key.
    defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
    killall Dock
    the first line will make the Dashboard into devMode.
    killall Dock will relaunch the Dock to make changes become effective.
  3. Launch the Dashboard by hitting the F12 key.
  4. Click and hold on the widget you want place in your desktop, while holding down the mouse button, press F12 again to close the dashboard.
  5. You can now move the widget around your desktop and place where you want to place. But take note that the widget will always remain on top of all other window, so be wise to pick location where to place your widget.
  6. In case you want to move back the widget to dashboard, simply click and hold the widget and press F12 to open the dashboard and release to place it back the widget.

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