OS X includes a variety of useful features that combine to make it a comfortable and robust operating system. Apple is known for his attitude to detail and constantly improve and modify its operating system chips. But not all of them are seen clearly, for example, I almost do not use Dashboard and annoys me that during the shift I constantly get on him, and not to the first desktop. In addition, widgets eat off the memory, and in general... If you like me, too, prevents the Dashboard, I bring you good news - it can be completely disabled. Permanently. Generally. And now I will tell you how to do it.
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Widgets - a rather controversial and almost useless (or rarely used) function. They are unclaimed and probably for this reason that developers are in no hurry to engage in their creation. From my own experience, I can say that I have only used the calculator, and then, when the hand was not the iPhone.
Disable Dashboard
Fortunately, Dashboard, and with it all rasprekrasnye widgets can be easily unplugged. And traditionally, it is done with the help of our beloved Terminal. Open it and trying to drive here the following command:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES; killall Dock
After that, restart the Dock, and the changes take effect - hated panel with widgets finally disappear. The first desktop to be extreme and in the switching time you will not miss. In addition, there will be consumed memory, it will be especially useful for owners of old Macs and those who have installed less than 8GB of memory. In short, the advantages are obvious.
Enabling Dashboard
It is unlikely that you will want to turn it back on, but I'll show you how to do it. All we need to do is enter in the terminal's this command:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO; killall Dock
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Do you frequently use the Dashboard, dear readers? Or take advantage of this advice and happy to turn it off? Tell us about it in the comments.