Removing Dashboard apps

[bjb.butler]

Hello World

Hey I just added a weather app from the weather channel to my dashboard, and I no longer want the one that came with Leopard. How do I get rid of it?

thanks

 

[I'm 5 ft 8]

Open Dashboard
Click on + sign @ bottom left hand corner of screen
This should insert X's beside everything in your Dashboard
Click on the one's that you want removed.
That's it.

 

[soberbrain]

Click the "+" button on the lower left and then "x" will appear on all your widgets.

Click the "x" on the weather widget you don't want.

 

[patrick0brien]

-bjb.butler

You can turn them off, or remove them entirely.

To turn them off...

1. Invoke Dashboard
2. Click the rounded cross in the lower left hand corner - it rolls up the screen exposing a panel of widgets beneath
3. Notice that all active widget now have an "X" at their upper-left corner
4. Click it and away it goes.

To remove the app - or widget...

1. Open [Home]:Library:Widgets
2. Locate the widget in question
3. Trash it.

 

[sickmacdoc]

For future reference, things like this are easily found in the "Help" function in the Finder too. Can often save time over posting a question and waiting for replies. In this case just entering "removing dashboard widgets" in the help search function returned the following procedure:

"Removing Dashboard widgets
You can remove a widget from your computer if you installed it yourself. You can’t remove widgets that came with Mac OS X from your computer, but you can remove them from the widget bar.

To remove a widget:

1. Press the F12 key to open Dashboard.
2. Click the Open (+) button to open the widget bar.
3. Click Manage Widgets.
4. To remove a widget from the widget bar, deselect its name in the list.
5. To remove a widget you installed yourself, click its Remove (-) button, and click OK."

 

[redmeister]

gotta love the mac community for being so helpful. haha all your write-ups are much more detailed than what i was going to write!

 

[patrick0brien]

You can’t remove widgets that came with Mac OS X from your computer

-sickmacdoc

Actually, you can remove the installed widgets using the technique I mentioned above, but they're stored in the system-wide directory:

{HDDNAME}:Library:Widgets

 

[sickmacdoc]

-sickmacdoc

Actually, you can remove the installed widgets using the technique I mentioned above, but they're stored in the system-wide directory:

{HDDNAME}:Library:Widgets

Glad to hear that, but as I noted I was just quoting the Apple Help page-- guess you better let Apple know that they need to update their stuff! I thought that sounded pretty weird too actually!

 

[KingYaba]

For what it's worth, if you want a simple GUI app to remove widgets among other things, Google search for "Appcleaner."