Widgets on desktop, possible in Lion?

[peterv6]

I've been running widgets on my OS X desktop for a few years, but since I've upgraded to Lion, the method of getting them onto the desktop doesn't work anymore. I used to be able to bring up Dashboard with F12, then click and hold on a widget then hit F12 again and drag the widget and it'd stay on the desktop. Now when I hit F12 again, the dashboard disappears, and so does the widget. I used the command

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

so that shouldn't be the problem. I'd really like to be able to do this again, so anyone who can help, it will be greatly appreciated!

[bradfordwithh]

I have been searching for an answer to the same question: how do we move widgets to the desktop in Lion???

[peterv6]

Here are the steps:

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click on Mission Control.
3. Deselect Show Dashboard as a space.
4. In Terminal, enter the command 
   "sudo defaults write com.apple.dashboard demode YES
5. Exit terminal.
6. Logout of Lion.
7. Log back into Lion.
8. Open Dashboard (I do it by hitting F12).
9. Select the widget you want on the desktop and, 
   while dragging it, hit F12 again.  That closes 
   Dashboard and places the widget onto the desktop.

[zmixter]

Here are the steps:

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click on Mission Control.
3. Deselect Show Dashboard as a space.
4. In Terminal, enter the command 
   "sudo defaults write com.apple.dashboard demode YES
5. Exit terminal.
6. Logout of Lion.
7. Log back into Lion.
8. Open Dashboard (I do it by hitting F12).
9. Select the widget you want on the desktop and, 
   while dragging it, hit F12 again.  That closes 
   Dashboard and places the widget onto the desktop.

Do you have to run the first original command? Then the sudo command? All I did was enter the Sudo command and followed the steps, then when I logged back in, before I moved any widgets, two of the them were already on the desktop. The other problem, was that the widgets were on top of the web pages and programs I had open. Then I moved both back to the dashboard, and couldn't move any of the widgets back to the desktop. I had them on Leopard, and really want them on Lion, any help is appreciated!

[mmacuser]

This works for me now with the exception that on Snow the widget would show on all Spaces and now only shows on the one where I dragged it to.

Any suggestions?

[DaveFlash]

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.

[DaveFlash]

thats because of how the new Spaces/Mission Control works in Lion, so there's no helping it, it'll stay on the first desktop you've dragged it to. Though ofc, you can always drag it to a different desktop/space

[rmpbklyn]

for 10.7 followed the instructions
as soon as click F12 nothing shows, just the desktop with apps that were running.
the F12 only now works as a 'overlay', after deselection of '...spaces...'

how does one get permanent window of widget as done with 'yahoo widgets'?
'widgetrunner' does not show all widgets,