{"id":632,"date":"2013-04-26T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invisiblezero.net\/?p=632"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:25:55","slug":"mac-os-x-completely-disable-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/mac-os-x-completely-disable-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X &#8211; Completely disable Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633\" alt=\"mac-desktop-dashboard\" src=\"https:\/\/ndthanh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mac-desktop-dashboard.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"152\" \/><br \/>\nSome people have claimed memory or performance problems with Dashboard. In my case, I just don&#8217;t use it, and dislike having applications running that I don&#8217;t use or need.<\/p>\n<p>To disable Dashboard- type or paste the following exactly into the Terminal window:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\ndefaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES\n<\/pre>\n<p>Next, kill the currently running Dashboard by killing the Dock (the Dock will reload itself, don\u2019t worry):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nkillall Dock\n<\/pre>\n<p>That\u2019s it, now Dashboard is completely disabled. Hit dashboard function key and nothing will happen. So what if you had a change of heart and want Dashboard back? Well turning it back on is just as easy.<\/p>\n<p>Enabling Dashboard- type or paste the following exactly into the Terminal window:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\ndefaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO\n<\/pre>\n<p>Again, kill the Dock, which will reload the now activated Dashboard:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nkillall Dock\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have claimed memory or performance problems with Dashboard. In my case, I just don&#8217;t use it, and dislike having applications running that I don&#8217;t use or need. To disable Dashboard- type or paste the following exactly into the Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES Next, kill the currently running Dashboard by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/mac-os-x-completely-disable-dashboard\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,53],"tags":[92,51],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":5,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}