Chanpory Rith
Mar 14, 2007
While clicking around in Mac OS X’s Dashboard, I stumbled on this nice little trick. Bring up Dashboard, hold down the Option button, and then hover over a widget. A little icon will appear in the top-left of the widget, allowing you to close it right on the spot.
This saves you the extra step of bringing up the Manage Widgets bar at the bottom of the screen.
You could also use the Widgets widget, but why take up the extra space?
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6 Comments
Ed
7:11 am
Or you could just disable Dashboard altogether :)
Scott
9:42 am
Very cool!
Harold
12:09 pm
Yeah I have used this method for some time. It works really nicely.
Groovymarlin
12:21 pm
Great tip! Except the “close” icon is in the top-left of the widget, not the top-right. Well, I suppose it’s the right side from the widget’s point of view. ;-) In any case, this is a really good tip that I will definitely use.
And Ed - disable Dashboard? Never! I need quick access to that Whoopie Cushion widget!
Chanpory
12:30 pm
Groovymarlin, Thanks for catching that! I changed it to “top-left”. I hope this doesn’t minimize the widgets’ rights in any way ;-)
Steve Roesler
4:57 am
Thanks, Chanpory!
It’s simple and useful…just forwarded the link to my daughter who goes nuts with those things.