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10.4: Use Dashboard in 'at a glance' mode
Authored by: Tomnibus on Jun 09, '05 12:05:49PM

That's good, thanks man. Now if only I ran dashboard widgets continuously on this machine. When they take up 20MB of RAM (and after a weekend of the weather widget being online it was taking up 76MB!) I don't run widgets, I only load them when I want to look at something.



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10.4: Use Dashboard in 'at a glance' mode
Authored by: rhowell on Jun 09, '05 12:16:49PM

"I don't run widgets, I only load them when I want to look at something."

I don't understand. What's the difference between running a widget and loading a widget? Please give examples. I'd like to minimize the memory usage as well.



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10.4: Use Dashboard in 'at a glance' mode
Authored by: Tomnibus on Jun 09, '05 12:34:17PM

When I bring up the dashboard screen, there are no widgets running in the background. I have to click the "+" or use cmd-= to bring up the list of widgets at the bottom. Then I click on them the load it into the screen. when I'm done with it. I click the "x" in the upper left corner. That is, if the list of widgets at the bottom is open. Otherwise you have to open that in order to close a widget down that is running.

If you load up activity monitor you will see when you load up a widget it appears in the list and, normally, starts at about 20MB. LIke I said, one weekend I left my weather widget on all weekend and when I checked my RAM usage on Monday weather was taking up 76MB.



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10.4: Use Dashboard in 'at a glance' mode
Authored by: Unsoluble on Jun 09, '05 03:31:47PM

Note that you don't need to open up the bottom drawer to close a widget: Hold down the Option key and point at a widget, and the X button pops up.



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10.4: Use Dashboard in 'at a glance' mode
Authored by: auricgoldfinger on Jun 11, '05 09:26:41AM

This should be a hint on its own, it's a nice one!! :)



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10.4: Use Dashboard in 'at a glance' mode
Authored by: adrianm on Jun 09, '05 12:50:05PM

'course they're not really using that much memory. Unless the app is actively doing something it will just be using up swap (assuming you needed the memory for something to get it written out to swap in the first place).



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