I'm wondering if there's a way to disable the dashboard in Mountain Lion. I never use it and I think it's consuming processor and memory powers.
MacOS – disable Dashboard in Mountain Lion
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check this:
so, hotkey for dashboard is working.
In Finder, press ⌘ShiftG and type ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist and press Enter. Press ⌘I to bring up the file information pane. Click the Locked checkbox.
This will not prevent you from moving widgets around,opening new widgets, etc., but will preserve the arranged state of widgets at the time of locking such that any future time you launch Dashboard (rebooting, logging in, restarting Dock, etc), they will be preserved in their state at the time you locked the Dashboard.
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Best Answer
With macOS 10.10 Yosemite or later, you can go to
System Preferences → Mission Control and switch Dashboard to Off.
On any OS with Dashboard, you can disable it through Terminal with the following command:
It can be re-enabled with: