I was able to drag a widget into "plain view" without changing anything using defaults.

1. Start by pressing F12 or whatever your definded key is.
2. Click on the Dashboard's shelf button (is there a name for that?).
3. Drag out a new widget and while still holding the mouse button down, press F12 again.

That's it. To move a widget back into the Dashboard layer, click and hold the mouse on the one you want to get rid of, press F12, and release the mouse button.

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Adam Spector.

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This will allow you to put only a single widget on the desktop and only until you press F12 again. Try it.

This works great but since I did this now when I hold option and mouse over a widget I dont get a good close button.... it flashes and wont close... how do I undo the detach widget.... I want to see if that will set it back to normal..
Thanks guys