Widgets on desktop, possible in Lion?

[DavidAzar]

the above is wel and good, but you do not need to log out and back in again, the following makes it work immediately:

step 1: make sure Dashboard as a Space is turned of.
step 2: open terminal and type defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES, and hit enter.
step 3: type killall Dock. hit enter.
step 4: there is no, step 4, your done.

now when you open dashboard, you can drag, and hold a widget while closing dashboard so it stays on your desktop. repeat in reverse to put the widget back in Dashboard.

Hey Dave Flash,
Is there a way to have the widgets go on the back always?
for example, i've used your tip and now i have the cal widget on the desktop, but if i open a new application, that is not of full screen , the widget appears on the window of the app, blocking some of the space.
i hope i am being clear..

thanks

[RMD3819]

the above is wel and good, but you do not need to log out and back in again, the following makes it work immediately:

step 1: make sure Dashboard as a Space is turned of.
step 2: open terminal and type defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES, and hit enter.
step 3: type killall Dock. hit enter.
step 4: there is no, step 4, your done.

now when you open dashboard, you can drag, and hold a widget while closing dashboard so it stays on your desktop. repeat in reverse to put the widget back in Dashboard.

HELP!

I did the above in an attempt to move my widgets to my desktop and now Mission Control is gone! The icon is there but when I click it it "shrinks" the active windows but Mission Control does not appear as one of them.

This is my second day with my Mac and I've screwed something up already.

[DeltaMac]

Undo what you did:
type in the same defaults write command, but change "devmode" from YES to NO.

You'll probably want to restart.
Assuming that's the only change that you made to dashboard/mission control, then you should be back to where you were.
If that doesn't change anything, delete the file "com.apple.dashboard.plist" from your user folder/Library/Preferences folder.
Logout, then log back in to your user.