Dashboard widgets to overlay on Desktop

Before I formatted and reinstalled Lion on my MBP, I could get the Dashboard widgest to come on top of my Desktop in a translucent manner, minus the brown circles as background. This would allow me to view the widgets as well as whatever I files/apps I am working on. After reinstalling Lion, I am unable to trace the setting to make this happen. Can someone pls help?
Thanks in advance.

Just a personal thought on this. Coming from Apple, I find the additions of Mission Control, Launchpad and this Dashboard (as Space) pretty worthless. I mean, in the past I had already configured hot spots on corners of my screen to access MC etc in a convenient way (Dragging the pointer to the corners is anyday more convenient and faster than looking for an icon and clicking it). To me, MC and LP are just additional fancy ways to do an existing thing in a more laborious way. (Or probably I am missing out something big time).

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and then re-start the Dock by
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monty77 wrote:
Hi all,
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Why did you do that? Was there some problem?
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Hi Frank, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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-mj
[email protected]

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