Disabling Dashboard

The other day I saw someone remove the Dashboard icon from the Dock as a way of disabling it entirely.  Probably not the best route.  It’s pretty easy though.  The command to disable:

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

And of course if you’ve disabled, you might want to turn it back on using this handy-dandy double-negative:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean no

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