Comments on: Disable Dashboard

By: Rapz

Rapz — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:11:10 +0000

ok the following might be very basic a obvious but it might help;
if you are using ‘dashboardkiller’ first make sure the app., is in the app. folder (i told you that its basic but you’ll be amazed at what people do!!)… Ok drag it to your dock…. Click on icon in dock and a small win., will come up with buttons ‘turn on’, ‘turn off’… ‘Turn off’ DBK then quit it… good so far, ok… to turn back on go to dock and select icon, small window reappears…. press F12 and everything should be back… If not you got problems…

By: JW

JW — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:42:38 +0000

Same problem here as Carlton Canary. To disable the dashboard, the command works fine, but to enable it again, the command doesn’t work.

By: Carlton Canary

Carlton Canary — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:13:49 +0000

Hey i disabled the dasbhoard and im trying to enable it again and the command wont work. what do i do.

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Yahoo Buys Konfabulator, Gives It Away | Greg In The Desert — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:17:00 +0000

[...] don’t use Dashboard in 10.4 and have completely disabled it. I understand it works fine in 10.4 along with Dashboard, and if your using an older version of OS [...]

By: Chris Adams

Chris Adams — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:52:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tip and commands! saved a lot of headaches.

By: face

face — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:53:45 +0000

I use “DashboardKiller” these days.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:55:12 +0000

I disabled my dashboard but want to enable it again. So, I changed the value from YES to NO but it doesn’t work. Any clues as to make it work again?

Thanks
Eric

By: MacTips » Enabling and Disabling Dashboard

MacTips » Enabling and Disabling Dashboard — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:46:02 +0000

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By: Dashboard (de)aktivieren via Terminal, alternative Widgets — blog.kazam.de

Dashboard (de)aktivieren via Terminal, alternative Widgets — blog.kazam.de — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:42:26 +0000

[...] Mac OS X Things habe ich einen schönen Tipp gefunden, mit dessen Hilfe man das Dashboard aus- und wieder [...]

By: Dashboard (de)aktivieren via Terminal, alternative Widgets « blog.kazam.de

Dashboard (de)aktivieren via Terminal, alternative Widgets « blog.kazam.de — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:51:58 +0000

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By: face

face — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:22:26 +0000

birdie -

“Mac OS X: How to add a URL (@) icon to the Dock”
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106851

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:15:50 +0000

there’s a tiny app i use to turn the dasboard on and off with a click, it’s called dashboardkiller
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19248

By: bridie lynch

bridie lynch — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:07:12 +0000

hi can you please help me. i accedntly removed the @ apple sign off the dock which lets me go onto the internet and no i have to go through safari all the time and cant open more than one window. can you please help me find this button i cant find it anywhere.

By: C

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:42:08 +0000

thank you very much for sharing your insights! dashbaord is neat to look at, but I still have no need for it – now I can disable it
C.

By: MacScripts » Blog Archive » I hate the DashBoard, so I disabled it.

MacScripts » Blog Archive » I hate the DashBoard, so I disabled it. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:03:45 +0000

[...] Thanks to http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/ for the hint! [...]

By: me

me — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:21:57 +0000

Hi everyone,
I see people touting memory stats.

Although Dashboard (which is basically a baby browser) does need some RAM, be careful. Don’t blindly trust the memory measurements in Activity Monitor (or elsewhere). Shared libraries are counted twice if they’re opened by two apps, even though only a single instance actually resides in memory. This can make many applications look like they’re eating a TON of memory, even though they’re all sharing most of it. Most applications actually don’t require a whole lot.

To detect leaks without using dev tools, watch the memory consumption of the process over time. Don’t just sample it once or twice. Leaks are obvious, because they usually appear as a steady, incremental, upward slope in the memory consumption of a process.

By: Zulma » Widgets on my Mac OSX Tiger was totally making my computer slow!

Zulma » Widgets on my Mac OSX Tiger was totally making my computer slow! — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:03:49 +0000

[...] Disable Dashboard Controlling the dashboard. Sometimes you just donâ€™t want it around. Note: This is a per user setting. I do not know how to disable it by default for every user. Possibly if you make this change to /Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard -Make Dashboard go away defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES Make Dashboard come back defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO You have to restart the Dock to have this take effect killall Dock The terminal is your friend. Source: http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/?p=201 [...]

By: Natal

Natal — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:53:39 +0000

Ok, I couldn’t resist.. :p

Here it is, the only widget you’ll ever need, the “DisableDashboard” Dashboard-widget : http://www.natal.be/index.php/?p=8

By: Natal

Natal — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:49:20 +0000

I packaged both scripts into an executable which can be placed right on the Desktop or in your Applications or Utilities folder. Get it here: http://www.natal.be/index.php/?p=6

Running â€œDisable Dashboardâ€ removes it from memory and disables F12 and the Dashboard icon. Running â€œEnable Dashboardâ€ restores it (with the previously running widgets still in place).

By: face

face — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:30:08 +0000

jason – you just type in the command after starting the Terminal application. It doesn’t matter where you are.

I suggest that you don’t fiddle with the -g switch on defaults – it’s pretty clear that you aren’t set to muddle things in the shell (unless you know which files to backup before twiddling)

man defaults

would be valuable.