Quickly Close a Widget

Submitted by Josh on Mon, 2005-07-04 06:18.

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Close a widget

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!)

Option key, dude.

Submitted by jSchwa on Mon, 2005-07-04 06:46.

Option key, dude.

Thanks!

Submitted by Ivan on Mon, 2005-07-04 06:50.

I made a revision to the original post.

Thanks for the correction!

Submitted by Josh on Mon, 2005-07-04 15:56.

I use a windows keyboard and have no idea key is which :/

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Josh Stevens | Nautilus7 Design

Hmmm

Submitted by r0sss on Mon, 2005-07-04 19:42.

edited - nevermind

Finally!

Submitted by Ankit Soni on Mon, 2005-07-04 12:15.

This is one tip I loved! Thanks a lot! This is gonna save me tons of time

Opening widget drawer

Submitted by r0sss on Mon, 2005-07-04 14:12.

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

Submitted by jSchwa on Mon, 2005-07-04 16:34.

Yea, I wouldn't mind better widget management to come in the future.

This was an old tip...

Submitted by JimD on Mon, 2005-07-04 19:38.

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.