dictionary on my dashboard is not working. any suggestions?

Thank you J.H.Moon. It was about an inch about the app. I got it to work. I really appreciate your help!

How long do you have to hover? I have tried hovering for about 2 seconds on the top part of the app, and various intervals above the app up to about an inch and a half. No dice yet.

I have tried all these things, but when I hover anywhere on or near the app nothing is appearing (cursor). This has been driving me nuts for several months now. Help!

I was having the same problem as agentkirkwood and scrappycats are having. I found that the cursor changes shape only if I hold down the 'command' key while slowly moving the cursor up from the app. The cursor changed to the I-beam (insertion) shape, but it did open the dictionary.

Thanks Moon.

I found the solution!! Instead of hovering over the widget until the arrow cursor appears, all you have to do is shift-click it! It'll twitch a bit, but after that it should go back to normal *phew*

I have the same problem

The widget looks like this.

Please help!

Amazing, it worked! Thanks!

Thanks for the coherent explanation!

It works for me. Thanks.

Thank you. Worked for me.

This worked for me on MacOS Sierra, although I used Terminal to delete these files and then rebooted.

Dictionary dashboard widget not working on mac OS X Sierra 10.12.1?

Is there an update, or suggested fix for it?

i have the same problem , but it looks much bad here

Your problem, hardware or software, may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this older thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread, which can also result in you applying the wrong advice to your particular problem.

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