This is a quick hack I put together to run MacOS Dashboard Widgets on your desktop...
This is a quick hack I put together to run MacOS Dashboard Widgets on your desktop, rather than having to separately enter the dashboard to view/manipulate them.
Though there is an undocumented hack that allows you to run Widgets on the desktop, they always float above all other windows (including PowerPoint presentations!), which I found to be pretty annoying. WidgetRunner allows you to specify whether each widget should float on top, act like a normal window, or be pinned to the destkop.
There are also commercial applications to do this, but I didn't feel it was worth $10 for this feature Apple should have included for free, so I decided to write this bit of free software.