Dashboard

seawolf · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:40 am Post subject: Dashboard

So, anyone else immediately disable Dashboard after Tiger upgrade (not just hide it away)?

My iMac G5 512MB was down 100 megs with Dashboard running, even after I disabled all the widget features, so I did a google search and came up with this:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/08/disabledashboard/forums.html

The widgets are a cool idea, if they could be efficiently pulled off (and turned off for that matter).

Just my 2 cents. Wink

-Elijah

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:12 am Post subject:

I dunno, but I too can live without gimmicks such as dashboard. It's amazing too how much your Mac speeds up with added memory. I'm only on 512mb here- I wish I had double this.

Safari's a big memory hog too. Often I have to empty Safari's cache in order to stop the spinning beachball of death appearing :-/

Does anyone here use Tiger with an old G4? How fast does it run? (10.3.9- which is what I'm on, is much faster than previous versions of OSX).

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:17 am Post subject:

I have a g4 ( dual 1.25) with 2 gigs of ram. I am running with a very small set of widgets activated. My new g5 ( soon to come ) will have 4 gigs.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:01 am Post subject:

It isn´t a big deal to disable Dashboard.

In terminal type:

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

You must restart the Dock after this:

killall Dock

This is in fact just a "switch". You can get Dashboard back by typing this in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

The dock must be restarted yet again: killall Dock

Uh.. right.. the same recipe is at: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/08/disabledashboard/forums.html
and dozens of other places.

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

Did I say something worng?

Wink

seraph · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: Re: Dashboard

seraph

...and what about this one? Shocked