Terminal Tip Tuesday - Disable Dashboard

3,890 views · Published 15 February 2011 · 3:39 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: Snazzy Labs · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Dashboard is like the smelly kid that hangs around because no one tells him to get lost.  Get rid of him ASAP with:

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

then:

killall Dock

To revert, change "YES" to "NO".

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