Dashboard/Widgets are worthess- how do I kill them?

[twanto]

Ok so I'm probably the only one who thinks the whole dashboard thing is completely useless. Its a horrible use of system resources. Why should a frickin calculator take up so much RAM? C'mon apple. Anyway, how do I shut this crap off? I try to right click and quit from the menu bar but there is no "quit" option for the dashboard.

Thanks Steve Jobs. Thanks for not giving me the easy option to quit your useless crap program. WTF??? For a product that is supposed to be so great, why oh why are there so few choices?

I guess I should just be thankful the ibook was willing to share the mac experience with me.

 

[Unorthodox]

Death to Dashboard!

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Thanks Steve Jobs. Thanks for not giving me the easy option to quit your useless crap program. WTF??? For a product that is supposed to be so great, why oh why are there so few choices?

Quit your whining.

TinkerTool will also disable Dashboard.

 

[gr8tfly]

Why should a frickin calculator take up so much RAM?

There's a standalone calculator, if you don't want to use the widget.

The majority of widget's memory usage is swapped out (virtual). My ~20 open widgets take less than 10MB each of real. They also do not take any CPU resources when not used (99.9% of them, anyway). I think if you close all open widgets, dashboard shouldn't be an issue.

 

[NJuul]

You can always just delete Dashboard from your applications folder.

 

[MacBoobsPro]

I find dashboard VERY useful. Two clicks and you have the information you need. I have yet to find a quicker/easier method of making conversions and translations.

 

[Analog Kid]

If you never go to the Dashboard, it never starts up. Take the icon out of your Dock, disable the hot keys and mellow out...

Just found this on the above link:

No need for an application for something that can be done easily from the command line:
To turn Dashboard off:
# defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
To turn Dashboard on:
# defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO
You have to restart the Dock after making either change for it to take effect:
# killall Dock

 

[tombarnes]

Why don't you just remove it from the dock and make sure you never use it!?

Simple.

Does it use system resources when it isn't being used???

Cheers!

 

[EvryDayImShufln]

If you never go to the Dashboard, it never starts up. Take the icon out of your Dock, disable the hot keys and mellow out...

Just found this on the above link:

I would vouch for this being true, as every time i start my dashboard for the first time it takes abit to load up.

 

[twanto]

Why don't you just remove it from the dock and make sure you never use it!?

Simple.

Does it use system resources when it isn't being used???

Cheers!

From what I've read, it does. And the comptuer seems slower after the last update. mind you I didn't update it.

Thanks for the solutions people!

 

[Arne]

As far as I know the Dashboard process is started when you first access it. If you never start it, it will not use any RAM or processor time.

 

[skunk]

I was just going to say that.

 

[Andrew05151]

I don't think that's entirely true. I just booted without accessing the dashboard, yet the widgets are definitely running, as they're showing as active in activity monitor. In fact the calculator is taking 15 mbs of real memory, and 321 mbs of virtual memory....