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That pesky moving weather widget is finally fixed! Kinda...

I appreciate what the developer is doing here, but I'd prefer that Apple makes the 2 second fix to the code. They have 60,000 employees...someone must have told Cupertino that this widget doesn't maintain it's position on screen over the past 5 years.:mad:
 
nyolc8 said:
Retina now fixed, thanks Feed Me for testing it! :)
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(Latest is .4, you can check yours in the widget preferences > modified.4 by nyolc8)
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Beautiful work! :D
 

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Thanks for the effort, but it still moves around for me, just as the original does. :eek:
 
Hilarious... I've never experienced this bug until I saw this thread name and it prompted me to check the weather via Dashboard, and it moved on me! It's all your fault! ;)
 
tkermit said:
Thanks for the effort, but it still moves around for me, just as the original does. :eek:
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Now that is strange... I tested the moving for two days before I uploaded the widget, I tried every combination, refreshed many times, but it's not moving for me. Do you have a retina macbook pro?
 
nyolc8 said:
Now that is strange... I tested the moving for two days before I uploaded the widget, I tried every combination, refreshed many times, but it's not moving for me. Do you have a retina macbook pro?
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Just a regular MBP. I'll try it out some more. I have both the regular widget and yours open at the same time, and they have only moved once so far. I noticed I'm using Modified.2 though – would the latest version help maybe?
 
The jumping is fixed in the first modified version, so it shouldn't move with .2 too. Where do you put your weather widget on the screen? Do you have the low temp enabled? If it's jumps again, try to change the show low temps setting.
 
nyolc8 said:
The jumping is fixed in the first modified version, so it shouldn't move with .2 too. Where do you put your weather widget on the screen? Do you have the low temp enabled? If it's jumps again, try to change the show low temps setting.
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I have it set up like this now. The one on the right is Apple's own widget. I'm not a hundred percent sure whether I had the lows enabled or not the last time it moved. It's possible.

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tkermit said:
I have it set up like this now. The one on the right is Apple's own widget. I'm not a hundred percent sure whether I had the lows enabled or not the last time it moved. It's possible.

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Try with lows turned on, then try with lows turned off. I tested it with both option, but it might related to that.
 
This annoying issue is happening again since I've installed Mavericks...
Any fix on the go, pretty please? :D
 
After 6 years, I've given up. I hide the Dashboard and use the app Living Earth which provides a Retina quality weather widget that sits in the task bar and launches on load.

Apple only has Dashboard on by default to show new users they can have different desktop pages. Other than that, it's pretty much dead. No one develops those widgets anymore so Apple might as well just kill it for OS XI.
 
CamiMR said:
This annoying issue is happening again since I've installed Mavericks...
Any fix on the go, pretty please? :D
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PatriotInvasion said:
After 6 years, I've given up. I hide the Dashboard and use the app Living Earth which provides a Retina quality weather widget that sits in the task bar and launches on load.

Apple only has Dashboard on by default to show new users they can have different desktop pages. Other than that, it's pretty much dead. No one develops those widgets anymore so Apple might as well just kill it for OS XI.
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MacRumors user, nyolc8 provided a software fix to this problem. Download the widget here and replace the stock one with his.

Direct Download Link
 
PatriotInvasion said:
Don't feel comfortable taking candy from strangers.
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I read this post because i have had the same problem with the weather widget. There were enough positive answers to the download so i got it & installed it. It works beautifully. Thanks to nyolc8 for putting in the time & work to helping us all out. I am careful about downloading other peoples tweaks BUT will do so if the general review is positive. If i didn't take the "risk" sometimes - I would have a much less usable mac.

It doesn't seem to me to be " taking candy from strangers" - more about helping myself.

To me - every app maker is a stranger & I would have no cool stuff on my mac if i worried about the implications of installing stuff from unknown sources. It seems to me that the world is teaching everyone to be more & more in a state of fear, which is so sad.
 
Prof. said:
MacRumors user, nyolc8 provided a software fix to this problem. Download the widget here and replace the stock one with his.

Direct Download Link
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I already had his version of the widget installed on ML, but for some reason after installing Mavericks it also started moving!!
So deleted, reinstalled and now working as intended again!!
Thank you nyolc8!!
 
CamiMR said:
I already had his version of the widget installed on ML, but for some reason after installing Mavericks it also started moving!!
So deleted, reinstalled and now working as intended again!!
Thank you nyolc8!!
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Bookmark that link so when you install OS XI (or 10.10 if they go that route) you can re-install it again.
 
Here we are in 2015 and OS X 10.9 still has the bug. Haven't loaded Yosemite yet so I don't know if it's fixed on it.

I've downloaded nyolc8 version but have not run it since it's from a unknown developer so I don't know its safe.
 
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