Terminal Un-doing

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I had a widget (leopard tricks, tips or something like that) which gave me the terminal command to enable some widgets to appear on the desktop.

So, I tried it out. Now I want to change it back (or just get rid of it) What command do I need to type into terminal?

Can anyone help me out?
 
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Hard to advise without knowing what you did in the first place but the most common way to allow widgets on the desktop is this:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
(or NO to keep them routed in the dashboard only)

You can test if this was how it was done by going into dashboard click and drag a widget - don't release the mouse button. Press whichever function key you use to toggle the dashboard and return to the desktop and release the mouse button. The widget will stay on the desktop. It's the same procedure to send a widget back.

HTH (and makes some kind of sense)
mrplow
 
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Excellent. Kudos for you sir...!
 

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