Quickly Close a Widget
Josh (154 points) | Mon, 2005-07-04 06:18
While Dashboard is definitely a useful feature of Tiger, the way widgets are opened and closed can be rather clumsy.
For example, to simply close a widget, you have to mouse over the the "+", click it, then click the "x" on the particular widget.
You can save yourself a little time by just holding down the Alt (Option) key, and the "x" will appear on any widget you hover with the mouse. Just click it, and it's gone.
(Maybe not the most technically helpful of tips, but it is one I am glad to know!)
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Option key, dude.
I made a revision to the original post.
I use a windows keyboard and have no idea key is which :/
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edited - nevermind
This is one tip I loved! Thanks a lot! This is gonna save me tons of time
You can also save a millisecond by clicking cmd+= and the drawer will open.
Supposedly, with 10.4.3 Apple is doing some work with widgets; making it easier to maintain and trash widgets right from within the widget screen.
Yea, I wouldn't mind better widget management to come in the future.
that has appeared on virtually every Mac-related Web site around. I'm surprised everyone didn't already know about this.
The next version of Tiger does indeed have a Widget Manager built-in, but it's somewhat limiting, though still useful. I have no idea if it will make it into the final shipping update though.
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by pressing "Apple key + r" (lol correct combo this time, I promise :-))
Useful especially if you are creating a widget and make an update to it while it's still running.
Or, you can just admire the cool spinning animation it makes ;-)
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It looks pretty too.
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sorry, but holding the Option key down to quickly close a widget is old, old, news.
but "Cmd+=" is a neat combo to know. and "Cmd + r" is also handy. thanks for those two. :)
Whether its old or not, its news to me. Great tip! Thanks
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