Leopard Dashboard and Realplayer clients

I use a number of client widgets that use realplayer to access the BBC’s streams. RP is buggy as hell on Leopard and i often suffer cutouts and drops when navigating back to the dashboard for various reasons.

There is no solution (possibly one can uninstall RP and reinstall the old version of RP10 – if you can find it.  this has helped some people).

I have a workaround though: put the widget on your desktop instead.  To do this just enable widget developer mode and drop the widget on the desktop.  Then restart the Dock. These are the terminal commands to make it work:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
killall Dock

then just open the Dashboard, select the relevant widget and (maintaining the selection) close the dashboard. You can then drop the widget where you wish.