Daniel Hruska Dashboard has been with us for quite a few years. Sure, some users like it and find added value in it, but from what I've talked about Dashboard with my friends, no one uses it. I belong to this group. I would even say that the presence of the Dashboard bothers me.
The Dashboard era reigned years ago in older versions of OS X, but its use and meaning is gradually disappearing, especially in the latest OS X Yosemite, where widgets can be added directly to the Notification Center just like in iOS 8. Below we provide instructions on how to disable the Dashboard in OS X Mavericks and in the upcoming OS X Yosemite, which many are already testing and the procedure is similar.
Hiding the Dashboard - OS X Mavericks
I use Mission Control quite a lot in Mavericks, and the additional desktop just adds unnecessary noise on the screen. Fortunately, there is a solution that is very simple. Just open the Mission Control menu in System Preferences and uncheck Show Dashboard as desktop.
Hiding the Dashboard - OS X Yosemite
In Yosemite, the settings options for the Dashboard are more advanced. You can either leave it completely off, turn it on as a separate desktop in Mission Control, or run it only as an overlay, i.e. that it will not have its own designated area and will always overlap the current one.
Disable Dashboard
For those who want to go even further and disable Dashboard altogether, we also have a solution. In Yosemite, the Dashboard can be turned off in the settings, but not completely disabled, so if you accidentally open the Dashboard application, it will start and you will have to manually close it again. Just open a terminal and enter this command:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean true
Once you confirm it with the enter key, enter the following command:
killall Dock
Confirm the entry again and use your Mac without Dashboard. If it wants to bring the Dashboard back, put the commands:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean false
killall Dock
Well. I sometimes use it, I have a utility for exchange rates. But now I'm thinking about it, is there actually a widget in the Notification Center now, isn't it?
In the current public beta of Yosemite, the Dashboard can be turned off directly in the Mission Control settings. The dashboard is set "as an overlay" from the factory.
Does disabling Dashboard work reliably for you in Yosemite? I can still call even after switching off.
Yes, it works reliably. Although we tried to call him, the response is zero.
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Turning it off works for me in Yosemite. It will not appear again.
Courses, calculators and school boards, google analytics, weather, etc... I have quite a lot of it there and I use it every day.
I would be interested - is it possible to initialize the DashBoard at startup before turning it off, so that the widgets are active after turning it on.
There is a Dashboard KickStart utility for this: http://www.colourful-apps.com/products/dashboard/dashboardkickstart
Thank you.
Thank you!
I have a calculator, currency rates, weather, screen recorder, processor usage, google analytics in the Dashboard... I practically don't use the notification center on Maverick, I don't know if I just didn't learn it, or if it just doesn't work as I would imagine. Apple's notifications are not very (at all) interactive - for example, Facebook will show me some old messages, but the website with the given message will no longer be launched when I click on it.
I mainly have RSS feeds in the notification center... and they are fine and work great...