My dashboard is displaying three copies of the weather widget. How can I delete the extra ones and just keep one?
For as much as the Dashboard on Mac OS X is cool, it’s not quite as intuitive in its design as Apple may think. Yours is one of a number of common Dashboard questions I get with some regularity, and the good news is that once you know the secret, it is easy to delete unwanted widgets.
The trick is to know how. 🙂
First off, here’s a typical setup with three weather widgets in Dashboard within Mac OS X Leopard:
While clicking on the tiny script “i” will flip the widget and let you enter data, there’s certainly no obvious way to close it, no tiny box with an ‘x’ in it, no red bubble, nothing. So how do you do it? You click on the “X” button on the lower left of your screen:
Now every widget in Dashboard magically transforms to have a close button:
Click on the “X” adjacent to the widgets you don’t want to see any more, and poof! they’re gone forever. Or at least until you launch them again. And now you know! 🙂
Thank you, thank you!!! I have been so frustrated trying to get that damn weather widget off…it slows down my dashboard and I don’t need 2 weather reports popping up at the same time. Not sure how they both got there but wow, like Shannon said, I did feel really dumb now that you make it look so easy! Cest’la Vie! Oh, and that’s pretty cool how they sort of melt away, too. I will have to remember how helpful you were in case I have another duh question! Happy 2013!
Thank you, I feel really dumb that I didn’t see that little plus sign
Thanks Dave!
You are my hero. end of story. i love you. you just solved the number one mystery of my life right now! thank you!
Thanks so much.
I don’t know who you are, but I love you! Thanks
Thanks! I was about to ruin all my settings trying to find it! Thank goodness for Google & you 🙂
Thanks Dave!
THANKYOU!
if you scroll over a widget with the option key pressed then the x will appear, too
just add a new widjet and youl see X’s on all the widjets