Comments on: OS X Leopard: Disable Dashboard

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:20:14 +0000

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

By: Romac

Romac — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:27:30 +0000

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

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:36:50 +0000

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

By: admin

admin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:14:50 +0000

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

By: Greg L

Greg L — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:16:18 +0000

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!