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Close Dashboard widgets without opening the widget bar

dashboardHere's a handy trick I came across this afternoon while using Dashboard. Hold down the option key while hovering your cursor over an open widget to bring up its close button. Now you can close a widget without having to first open the widget bar. This may be old news, but I hadn't seen mention of it before.

So, do you know of any other cool Dashboard tricks we should now about?
 

Here's a handy trick I came across this afternoon while using Dashboard. Hold down the option key while hovering your cursor over an open...
 

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Balperro

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

October 07 2005 at 12:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jerid Hill

F12

July 25 2005 at 9:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott Gardner

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.

July 24 2005 at 10:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

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

July 24 2005 at 5:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Macuser

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.

July 24 2005 at 3:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

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

July 24 2005 at 10:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jimmy

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

July 23 2005 at 11:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kansir

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.

July 23 2005 at 10:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James

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...

July 23 2005 at 10:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zac

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

July 23 2005 at 6:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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