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The widget disappears the next time you hit F12 (and because of this, you can only have one widget on the desktop at a time). I was able to do this without devmode on.ģ. That's because you didn't enable devmode.Ģ. I was only able to do this if I dragged to create a new (or new instance of a) widget from the Dashboard Dock, *not* an existing open widget. (This may be necessary if a widget is buggy and gets messed up somehow.) There's even a nifty Core Image-based twirl effect to accompany the reload.Ī couple notes from playing around with this:1. You can do the same thing in reverse to drag the widget back onto the Dashboard.Also of interest: while a widget is frontmost, you can press Command-R to reload it.

Activate Dashboard by pressing F12 (or whatever key you've assigned to Dashboard).To get a widget off of the Dashboard and onto your desktop, just do the following: Open the Terminal and type defaults write devmode YES and press Return. If you'd like one of your Dashboard widgets to be available all the time, instead of only when you have activated Dashboard via F12, then activate the Dashboard dvelopment mode.