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10.4: Quickly free memory used by Dashboard widgets
Authored by: interlard on Mar 09, '07 04:45:28PM

I have the opposite problem: few widgets, oodles of RAM and I hate the delay while the Dashboard starts up its widgets. If I had wanted to wait that long, I'd have loaded a web page.

Any ideas; you lovely cleaver people, you?



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10.4: Quickly free memory used by Dashboard widgets
Authored by: Unsoluble on Mar 09, '07 06:05:25PM

Open it once when you log in, then enjoy it being instantaneous from then on?



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10.4: Quickly free memory used by Dashboard widgets
Authored by: mmmark1 on Mar 10, '07 08:18:19PM
I have the same situation, and I love Quickstart. It automatically starts the dashboard anytime you start up the computer or come out of sleep. Check it out here: http://www.alwintroost.nl/content/widgets/dashboardkickstart.xml

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10.4: Quickly free memory used by Dashboard widgets
Authored by: FG on Jul 22, '07 11:37:46PM

I've written a quick and dirty applescript to do that:

try
tell application "System Events" to key code 111 --F12
end try

delay 1

try
tell application "System Events" to key code 111
end try

Basically, this script presses twice the key F12 with one second delay: it needs, obviously, that you haven't changed the shortcut to Dashboard, and that you have enabled access for assistive devices (in the Universal Access Preference Pane). Paste it in Script Editor, save it as an application and add this application to your login item, and voilĂ ! Surely there must be a much clever and gracious way to accomplish that, but I'm a basic applescript user…



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