Good that it helped someone! That hack was necessary when I started with custom width. Without it, the "X" (close) bt for the widget would go to the top-right corner when the widget is loaded but it would continue there forever... I you shrank the widget you would get a flying "X" in the middle of nothing =0. The hack is to always load the widget with the small size (to put the X bt beside the Conf one) and then resize it some time later..