Close Dashboard widgets without opening the widget bar

Hi, This is my first experience with Tiger and Mac. While playing with the cool features of the my mac. I happened to drag the dashboard icon from the Dock to the trash and cleaned up. Now, my dashboard icon is gone and I don't know if I can put it back where it was. Thanks for your help Bal

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While in Dashboard, command+option+'+ button' zooms in, command+option+'- button' zooms out. Use mouse/trackpad to move around within a zoomed in window. This works the same as--yet independently of--the Desktop.

killall Dock just restarts the dock, no more. The dock disappears for about 5 seconds, then comes back up. This is what the devmode widget does to reset your dock. All your widgets are intact, it is just like restarting your computer. So, in short, all you have to do to enable devmode (without the widget) is entrer these commands into the terminal: defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES killall Dock

Tim: I like that widget a lot. What, exactly, does killall Dock do? It seems to me that Apple should have devmode always on as it adds some functionality and doesn't cause any problems as far as I know.

Henry: even better then logging out then back in, just type "killall Dock" (withot quotes, and the D in dock must be capital) while you are still in the terminal! Some actually made a widget to do this, and I urge everyone to check it out. http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=671

Is there a page in apple that lists out all these keyboard shortcuts for dashboard/widgets?

Thanks TUAW and everybody here. I am new to Tiger, i learn a lot about widget from here. I am happy to use Tiger, it's great ! I am also happy to know about TUAW, it is a very useful website for Mac user.

As of 10.4.2 Command + Left Arrow/Right Arrow scrolls through each 'page' of the widgets bar. It's much quicker than moving your cursor down to those tiny little arrows on either side of the screen! In fact come to think of it I haven't seen this on Mac OS X Hints... Better add it...

Ironic that you post this after writing that rather snarky entry abour Daring Fireball since he posted this exact same tip weeks ago.