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Mac 101: Managing Dashboard widgets
Is your Dashboard cluttered with tons of widgets that you don't want to see any longer? You can easily hide widgets from your Dashboard by holding down the option key while mousing over top of your widget and clicking the "x" button that shows up. Clicking the "x" button does not, however, delete the widget -- it will only hide it. To delete a widget, click the "+" button in the bottom left corner (or hit the command and + key combo) then select the "Manage Widgets..." button. From this widget manager, you will be able to click the red minus button beside the widget to completely remove it from your Mac. The deleted widget will show up in the OS X trash can.
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Fozzy Bear said 3:43PM on 7-16-2008
i never thought about the 'holding option' part... that's more helpful than clicking the on the bottom left for a quick see-ya.
however, the other part about 'managing widgets'... i took for granted people knew that...
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William Hook said 3:53PM on 7-16-2008
Neat trick (the keyboard shortcut), thanks. :)
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Matt Schinckel said 9:28PM on 7-16-2008
"Hiding" isn't quite right - it actually unloads them.
Then, they simply take up disk space (and it's easy enough to go to ~/Library/Widgets and delete them).
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