Can't drag widget onto desktop

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matracermatracer
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in macOS edited January 2014
On my G5 i can open dashboard and click on a widget then press f12 and the widget stays on the desktop.



On my Macbook i cannot do this.



Any ideas?

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    turnwriteturnwrite Posts: 372member
    Okay, so on your MacBook open up Terminal. Type in this:



    defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES



    Now log out and log back in again. Once you log back in, you should be able to bring up Dashboard, and then while you are dragging a widget around, hit F12 to close dashboard, and you should still be dragging that single widget around, and it will stay on your desktop, even when the rest of Dashboard is gone.



    That work?
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  • Reply 2 of 3
    irelandireland Posts: 17,801member
    Keep in mid your machine might act a little funny a while after doing this.
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  • Reply 3 of 3
    matracermatracer Posts: 91member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by turnwrite View Post


    Okay, so on your MacBook open up Terminal. Type in this:



    defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES



    Now log out and log back in again. Once you log back in, you should be able to bring up Dashboard, and then while you are dragging a widget around, hit F12 to close dashboard, and you should still be dragging that single widget around, and it will stay on your desktop, even when the rest of Dashboard is gone.



    That work?



    Thanks that works
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