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OS X Leopard: Disable Dashboard

Posted by Mitch on Dec 14, 2007 under Mac Tips | 6 Comments

Want to disable the Mac OS X Leopard Dashboard? Use these steps:

1. Open Terminal from the Utilites folder.

2. Type:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

and press Enter.

3. Restart the Mac and the Dashboard will be disabled.

See also...
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  • OS X Leopard: Disable 3D Dock
  • Leopard: Enable/Disable Password Prompt
  • Leopard: Enable/Disable Desktop Icons for CD’s, DVD’s or iPod
  • Leopard: Enable/Disable Program Starting Automatically at Login

    • 6 Responses to “OS X Leopard: Disable Dashboard”

    1. David Brogan says:
      August 29, 2009 at 9:57 am

      All I did to turn the dashboard off was: System Preferences>Mouse>the drop down box at the top ( 12 o’clock) – turn it off. This was suggested by AppleMac – and it worked.

      Reply
    2. Steve says:
      September 3, 2008 at 8:20 am

      Copied it verbatim. killed Dock. Rebooted. Don’t work.

      Reply
    3. Romac says:
      January 14, 2008 at 5:27 am

      You don’t need to restart to activate this.
      Just type “killall Dock” in the Terminal and here it is!

      Reply
    4. Jon says:
      January 2, 2008 at 6:36 pm

      Hi, my dashboard won’t open since using fast switcher in accounts to set up parental controls. I tried your command in terminal- command not found. I need to find a way to force the app to launch. How? Any help would be greatful.
      I know next to nothing about terminal; so you would have to be very exact. Thanks, Jon

      Reply
    5. admin says:
      December 15, 2007 at 12:14 pm

      You can switch the YES to a NO in the command to enable it.
      defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

      Reply
    6. Greg L says:
      December 15, 2007 at 8:16 am

      This may seem like a dumb question, but what is the code to turn it back on again.

      I don’t use my dashboard for anything but istatpro so I’d like to disable it, but would like to be able to turn it back on when I want.

      Thanks!

      Reply

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