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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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