Disable Dashboard?

FlashMac

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Hey gang.

What do people think is the best way to remove the dashboard functionality?

Don't get me wrong, I love Dashboard and can't wait to install Tiger at home, but I have been told to remove it for my users, as they have software for calendars etc and we want them to use that.

Tiger seems to boot with it, and I can't seem to turn it off beyond removing it from the dock (by the way, how do I get it back?) and killing the processes in Terminal doesnt get me anywhere as new processes seem to replace the killed ones instantly.
I must say I think its pretty limiting to have the Prefs lumoped in with the Expose prefs, but other than that I love the way it works, I just want to figure out how to make it not work at all.

Any advice?
 
FlashMac said:
Hey gang.

What do people think is the best way to remove the dashboard functionality?

Don't get me wrong, I love Dashboard and can't wait to install Tiger at home, but I have been told to remove it for my users, as they have software for calendars etc and we want them to use that.
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Just remove all widgets from ~/Library/Widgets and /Library/Widgets.

FlashMac said:
Tiger seems to boot with it, and I can't seem to turn it off beyond removing it from the dock (by the way, how do I get it back?)
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To get rid of it (I don't know how to stop it from loading) as best you can, just disable the hotkey(s) for Dashboard in the System Preferences. To get it back into the dock, just drag the Dashboard application from the /Applications folder back into the dock.
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
To get it back into the dock, just drag the Dashboard application from the /Applications folder back into the dock.
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D'oh! I think I need more sleep, thanks.
 
You can permanently disable it using terminal.

Code: 
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
That disables it permanently. You'll have to restart the mac to make it take effect, but then you will not have the dashboard at all.
 
Pardon my ignorance, but if <defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES> disables dashboard, does <defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO> re-enable it? TIA
 
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