You can move around to see what widgets are available (you can also install new ones from the Dashboard Widget repository at Apple, fyi) and if you did want a second weather widget with the weather in another city, you could just click on the weather widget icon. While the weather widget is powered by Yahoo Weather, it doesn’t know anything about configuration changes you make on Yahoo’s site itself, which is why you weren’t having any luck with it.ītw, Didja notice the little “X” on the lower left?Ĭlick on it and you’re in the Dashboard management area:

Put your cursor over it, however, and a tiny little “i” shows up on the bottom right corner:Ĭlick on it and the entire widget swings horizontally around and shows you the “back”, where the configuration is accessible:Īs you might expect, just type in the city, state of your current location:

Here’s the default Dashboard weather widget, as supplied by Apple (you can push F4 on your keyboard to get Dashboard, btw): Let me show you, with the weather widget. That’s what you’re facing, and the secret is to know that buttons appear when you put the cursor over the specified widget. I permanently have six spaces on my Mac and find it a splendid way to organize my workspace, but then again, I’ve used virtual screen systems for over twenty years, starting with early X Window System Unix boxes…Īnyway, Dashboard is a pretty cool feature but in their zeal to make it slick and visually beautiful, I fear that the Apple team might have made it just a wee bit more complicated than necessary. (Another one that precious few people seem to use but I love is Spaces. Still, I’m curious, do you, dear reader, use Dashboard on your Mac OS X system, or is it one of those forgotten features?

I constantly forget about the Dashboard capability on my Mac, for some reason or other, and always have a sense that everyone else does too, but obviously not.

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