36 Responses to “StopDashboard Widget”

1. Karan Lyons Says:
   October 21st, 2005 at 3:17

   Oh the irony.

2. Jurgen Proschinger Says:
   October 24th, 2005 at 11:12

   Thanks for this… much appreciated.

   Best,
   Jurgen Proschinger
   - Gryphon Entertainment -
   Blog: http://blog.gryphonent.com

3. Cool OSX Apps Says:
   November 7th, 2005 at 18:30

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4. Claviclaws Says:
   November 13th, 2005 at 15:02

   V. nice. Any chance of a slight alteration so that the Stop Dashboard widget remains on the dashboard with your other open widgets when dashboard is restarted - it’s currently three clicks to kill the dashboard rather than one.

5. N Vande Casteele Says:
   November 13th, 2005 at 17:18

   Clavliclaws: That’s strange. On my system the widget stays on the Dashboard when it is restarted. I have no idea why Dashboard would remove it.

6. |TknBlg||||| :: Dashboard pausado :: November :: 2005 Says:
   November 15th, 2005 at 20:57

   […] StopDashboard es un widget que ayuda a recuperar esos recursos poniendole pausa a la aplicación del Dashboard y cuenta con un shortcut para poder reactivar la aplicación para usar los widgets con simplementes presionar la tecla F12. […]

7. Claviclaws Says:
   November 20th, 2005 at 13:04

   N Vande Casteele: My system must have been getting seriously screwed up. A few days later I had the most horrendous crash (couldn’t log in to a terminal window, then couldn’t log in to any account, then couldn’t even get beyond Open Firmware); since reinstalling 10.4.3, Stop Dashboard behaves like it should…

8. peter Says:
   January 22nd, 2006 at 22:33

   Good, util and pretty. Thanks from Spain.

9. Mack Cockpith Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 19:18

   Thanks.
   Dashboard is really annoying and eats all my resources!

10. Rich Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 18:56

    Hmm, Odd
    download it and install in and ran it, but I can still see the dashboard in the dock running.

    send me a email on how to fix this.
    Rich

11. quirkster Says:
    June 7th, 2006 at 18:01

    I love it! When playing graphics-intensive games, I’ve been turning off specific widgets manually, which means I had to reposition them all again. All better now!

12. Jon Says:
    June 11th, 2006 at 13:56

    Thank you - I was looking for a utility like this and it works as described…

13. Trevor Says:
    August 4th, 2006 at 6:50

    Thanks dude. I am making a multi-hasher out of a number of existing hash generating widgets. im moving from MD5 to SHA-1 on a number of clients so this will be a nice start. Thanks for writing a tool to help development easier. :)

14. JP Says:
    December 17th, 2006 at 13:38

    I have the same problem as Rich.
    Maybe you can publish teh sollution in the blog?

    Rich Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 18:56
    Hmm, Odd
    download it and install in and ran it, but I can still see the dashboard in the dock running.

    send me a email on how to fix this.
    Rich

15. N Vande Casteele Says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 12:45

    Hello JP,

    I have no idea what the problem could be. All the widget does is run the following two commands:

    defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
    killall Dock

    Perhaps you can try to run these commands from the terminal. If it doesn’t work there either, then it is not a problem with the widget itself.

    Note that disabling/stopping the dashboard does NOT remove the Dashboard icon from the dock. It does remove it completely from memory.

16. AJ Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 20:49

    Rich and JP - The Dashboard icon will show as active in the dock even though it isn’t running (go figure). Check Activity Monitor to see if any Widgets are taking up memory.

    AJ

17. funky web widgets Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 19:46

    I’d kill for good widgets! Thank God I don’t have to since I found Widgipedia. Pretty cool widgets.

18. Mitch Says:
    July 7th, 2007 at 21:56

    I totally am into the last two. The radar one is awesome, I hate having to find a wireless network with tiger’s built in wifi-finder. And stop dashboard is smart. Thanks!

19. Henry Says:
    December 25th, 2007 at 8:09

    Works like a charm on Tiger!

20. Emanuele Says:
    January 2nd, 2008 at 21:19

    Thanks for your work.
    Ciao,
    Emanuele

21. Martino87r Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 0:50

    Very usefull, my dashboard have a CPU usage % near 35 and my MacBook CPU fan starts very often… Now it’s OKKKKKKK

    Thanks

22. Raul Says:
    April 29th, 2008 at 19:58

    Great Widget.
    The top (running in a terminal) shows that the DashboardC consumes 353M of Vmem.
    thank you
    Raul

23. Allan Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 11:04

    Thanks! Really useful.

    Sleek design too.

24. james Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 4:18

    Works great, very useful when Ram is precious

25. MJ Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 14:53

    Thanks until I get more than 512mb of ram this is wonderfull!

26. Proudleaf Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 8:38

    This is perfect! I save so much memory this way, and it’s quick and easy to use.

27. Kat Says:
    April 11th, 2009 at 20:13

    Hi, I have the same problem as Rich, Dashboard still seams to be running after I activate this widget (ie. the little arrow remains next to it in the dock).

    I tried to download the original utility instead but my computer warned that the application was damaged and may damage my system. Please email me so that I can get either the utility or widget to work.

    Thanks

28. Kat Says:
    April 11th, 2009 at 20:17

    Sorry I have just read the response to JP’s same question, but I am not that savvy with the computer and do not understand the instructions or what the “terminal” is, so I’d still appreciate an email, thanks!

29. Batdan Says:
    May 6th, 2009 at 21:47

    Thanks for this!
    I use Dashboard often, but want to disable it often too.
    The addition of the F12 command was superb. This works just fine with Leopard 10.5.6.

    Thanks again and my best to you and yours

30. Batdan Says:
    June 7th, 2009 at 0:09

    I accidentally hit one of many buttons on my mouse while moving this widget and now it’s stuck on my desktop.
    How would I remove it from there?

31. Dave Dragon Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 6:17

    Best Widget Ever! Should be a requirement on all Macs… seriously. Superb idea, too. Thanks !

32. JP Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 1:19

    Im running 10.6 and this doesn’t seem to be working. This is my fav widget ever

33. Sander Says:
    October 11th, 2009 at 22:22

    Installed it on Snow Leopard and now the Dashboard doesn’t work at all. Tried deleting the plists, doesn’t help either.

34. Neoeo Says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 15:42

    I also installed on Snow Leopard (10.6.1), but in my case it works like a charm. Wonderful!

35. Patrick Says:
    January 9th, 2010 at 22:16

    Works fine for me on Snow Leopard. Props :)

36. Sam Says:
    February 2nd, 2010 at 5:30

    Amazing: thx a lot!
    It work like a charm @ 10.6.2

    This simple things are best.

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