Ripping out Apple Dashboard

By andy
Published on July 15th, 2006

When I first installed OS/X 10.4, I thought that Dashboard was incredible. Now, just like Front Row, I’d much rather not be running it all the time (I found that nomatter how useful it looked, I could not ‘integrate’ it with the way that I liked to work with my computer.)

OS/X is great, but I always admit that it’s a memory hog; anything I can strip out of a running system, I do. After a reinstall (reason why this was needed coming up in a later post), I always cut out Dashboard. So as a reminder for myself how .. this is the best way.

sudo defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall -1 Dock

You can then remove Dashboard from the dock..

(only performed after a check that killall has the same effect as on Linux rather than Solaris!)

I still think dashboard is great, but I can’t find a use for it with the way I personally work. I am sure many Apple users feel the same way. I wonder how many Windows Vista users will feel the same way when they install the upgraded MS Operating System…


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