Turning of Widget

dacloodacloo
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
Hi!



I hope I'm in the right forum :-)

How can I turn off the Dashboard application when booting MacOSX?

I can't find it in the 'accounts' prefpane.



Thanks!



Jeroen

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    gregmightdothatgregmightdothat Posts: 1,709member
    It doesn't auto-load—until you press F12, it's not even running.



    To get rid of it completely, drag it out of your dock, and in the Dashboard & Exposé control pane, set the keyboard shortcut to "-" (nothing).



    I don't know why you really care though: impact on CPU and RAM are completely negligible (despite a few people who freaked out because of a design flaw in Activity Monitor).
  • Reply 2 of 3
    dacloodacloo Posts: 890member
    Thank you. I was under the impression it ate some of my Powerbook's performance. But if it's negligible, I'll leave it how it is.



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gregmightdothat


    It doesn't auto-load?until you press F12, it's not even running.



    To get rid of it completely, drag it out of your dock, and in the Dashboard & Exposé control pane, set the keyboard shortcut to "-" (nothing).



    I don't know why you really care though: impact on CPU and RAM are completely negligible (despite a few people who freaked out because of a design flaw in Activity Monitor).



  • Reply 3 of 3
    segdehasegdeha Posts: 4member
    It is actually possible to completely disable Dashboard, as noted in this post on MacOSXHints.com. But, why would you do that when there are so many great widgets around?
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