You’ll notice that it lives above everything else on your screen (at least, I don’t know how to push it behind other app windows) so I think you’ll have the best results with small widgets that can be tucked into a corner or lined up neatly on an edge. Move it to where-ever you want on your screen and it’s there, running, fully functional, without the rest of Dashboard around! Poof! Your Dashboard vanishes, but the widget’s still visible. While you’re still dragging it around (that’s critical: keep that mouse button down!) press f12 again. Ready for the fun now? Press f12 to bring Dashboard up, then drag one of your Dashboard widgets around. Now log out of your account by choosing Apple –> Log Out, and log in again (You need to restart Dashboard).

You’ll get another regular system prompt within Terminal if it works, there’s no other output to the defaults program. You can just copy and paste from this Web page if you’re concerned that you might type in something incorrectly, of course.

Mac dashboard widgets 2016