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My dashboard widget keeps disappearing in Leopard. I’ll load it into dashboard, hit keep, set my zipcode, and close dashboard. When I hit dashboard it loads again, but after a reboot it disappears again.
I’m not sure if this is a Leopard thing or a Google Desktop thing (it installs its own widgets). I think my configuration is messed up because once it was partially of the screen. Anyone know how to manually edit your dashboard configuration file?

-update-
I was able to hack a solution to this by running this command in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

That allows you to hit F12, click and hold a widget, and hit F12 again to drag it ‘out’ of widgets and onto the desktop. I did that, ran killall Dock, did the reverse, and ran killall Dock again, and it seems to be fixed. Weird.

Fail, it’s gone again.

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