Feb 12
By coincidence I figured that there is an easy way of deleting Widgets from your Dashboard.
Just go ahead and press the Alt/Option key and scroll over any widget. As you can see the white cross on the left hand side appears and you can delete a widget from your dashboard.
* note from James – This is an oldie but a goodie, I don’t recall if we’ve covered this already or not. I’m sure new mac users will appreciate.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Yep, it’s been posted:
http://www.leopardtricks.com/leopard/easily-close-widgets
February 12th, 2008 at 7:49 am
To me (and possibly others), the term “delete” implies completely removing it from the system. In that sense, this will not not delete a widget. It will merely close it.
February 12th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I’m a new mac user, and new to this page – and one of the top things i was trying to figure out how to do. Thanks for repost!
February 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Yeah… This is NO delete. Just removes it from you current DISPLAYED Dashboard Widgets.
Would be nice if there was a Quick Delete…
February 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am
BTW.. If you want this removal to go in Super-Slow-Mo. Hold Shift | Option, and click the X.
February 13th, 2008 at 2:02 am
This is great, I had some google widgets that were stuck there even after removing the google app and this worked great to remove them
March 14th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
THANK YOU!!!! New mac guy here and figured out how to get a widget onto the desktop and not in the dashboard, but then couldn’t get rid of them if I didn’t like! Thanks so much for the tid-bit, loved it.
November 27th, 2008 at 6:35 am
thanks! i know it’s simple but i didnt know how to do it in the 1st palce. so helpful
December 1st, 2009 at 12:41 pm
AMAZING!!!!! THANK-YOU!!!!