Comments on: Add Weather & Other Dashboard Widgets to the Desktop in Mac OS X

By: James

James — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:54:30 +0000

Same thing for me, John.

Does anyone know a way to make the widgets hide under other windows instead of on top?

By: Josh Lone

Josh Lone — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:17:06 +0000

Dave is correct I had to do the same thing.

By: Brad Caldwell

Brad Caldwell — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:54:54 +0000

I had that problem at first too. Try running the command in Terminal again and then logging out & back in.

By: Brad Caldwell

Brad Caldwell — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:54:19 +0000

You can actually hit option to pull them off the desktop too.

By: Dave Ross

Dave Ross — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:08:56 +0000

If it’s not working for you, try giving the “killall Dock” command after the “defaults write…” one.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:24:44 +0000

I didn’t realise the Dashboard space could be turned off! That’s the best part of this tip!

By: Mithilesh Vaidya

Mithilesh Vaidya — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 04:21:53 +0000

Well, it didn’t work out on my iMac. When I hold the widget while pressing F4, it just disappears

By: John Blommers

John Blommers — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:29:29 +0000

In my case the widgets actually disappeared from Dashboard. Their were only two, Weather and iStatPro. So I added them back to Dashboard. This time I could move them to the Desktop.