Display dashboard widgets on your desktop.

Posted by Steve
February 8, 2008

I personally love Dashboard widgets, but don’t like Dashboard.

I much prefer a sidebar view like the one in Google Desktop (Sidebar only works in Windows though). I just don’t like having to hit a key to look at some of my common widgets.

This may be old news, but I found a way to move widgets from the Dashboard to your desktop, here’s how:

The first thing you need to do is go to your ‘Utilities’ folder.

You can do this a few different ways:

  1. Press Command+Shift+U
  2. Go to the ‘Go’ menu and select Utilities
  3. Open ‘Applications’ then open ‘Utilities’

However you get there, once you’re there double click on Terminal to open a new terminal window.

The this, or copy and paste, in the terminal window and press Enter:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

After that just log out and log back in.

Now activate Dashboard. Click and drag an icon, while you’re still dragging it, exit from Dashboard (default is F12).

You’re widget will now be on top of all other windows on your desktop. As far as I know there’s no way to put them behind other windows, but you can move it to a corner somewhere and have direct access to it. :)

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