How to move Dashboard widgets onto your Mac desktop!
I've fallen in love with Dashboard on my new Mac OS X Tiger system, but I hate having to type f12 to get them to show up. Is it possible to have my dashboard widgets show up on my regular desktop?
It's not only possible, but it's pretty easy and darn fun! Here's what you need to do...
First, open up Terminal (Applications --> Utilities --> Terminal) and type in the following, exactly as you see here:
You can just copy and paste from this Web page if you're concerned that you might type in something incorrectly, of course.
You'll get another regular system prompt within Terminal if it works, there's no other output to...
It's not only possible, but it's pretty easy and darn fun! Here's what you need to do...
First, open up Terminal (Applications --> Utilities --> Terminal) and type in the following, exactly as you see here:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
You can just copy and paste from this Web page if you're concerned that you might type in something incorrectly, of course.
You'll get another regular system prompt within Terminal if it works, there's no other output to...
posted by Dave Taylor at
4:55 PM
