And, the csrutil command does not exist in a Mountain Lion system. El Capitan would show a multi-colored X Plus the window widgets (red, green, yellow buttons in the top left corner) are wrong for El Capitan. That’s it, now Dashboard is completely disabled and now your Mac as a bit more of free RAM memory to use for your useful applications instead. It shows the icon used for Mountain Lion. Next, kill the currently running Dashboard by killing the Dock (the Dock will reload itself, don’t worry): killall Dock Turning Dashboard off and on is done easily through the Terminal, so your first step is to launch the Terminal app which is found in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder. Type or paste the following exactly into the Terminal window and press enter: defaults write mcx-disabled -boolean YES
but will make its way to the desktop in Mountain Lion. With it you can use your favorite widgets as though they were regular pieces of software or even. Mountain Lion will allow you to browse for widgets directly inside dashboard with a built-in browser. Despite Launchpad’s iOS roots, however, Mountain Lion by and large looks and feels like a Mac, not an iPad. I still use Tiger on my PowerBook G4 for some stuff every few weeks and every time I use it, I love it and prefer the older OS to Catalina which I'm running on my 27' iMac. If you like widgets, but wish you could access them on your desktop, WidgetRunner is perfect for you. The new design style of macOS is ok but there's something about the old interface that makes it feel like you're using a Mac that the newer versions don't have. That doesn't mean there aren't still useful widgets, though. This trick works in all versions of OS X that have Dashboard, including Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. Relegated to a separate desktop since Lion, developers seem to have abandoned the Dashboard in favor of making apps for the iPhone. One can argue that it’s similar to past releases on the Mac, such as Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion, releases that respectively gave few new features, but offered more refinements instead.
If you want to avoid that I will show you how to disable it.
When you do a Software Update from the Apple menu, the App Store opens and does the search - not a separate app as. In this post, I would listing out such must.
Once you find few useful widgets for your Mac, you will start believing that the life has gone easier.
Unfortunately even if you never opened Dashboard and/or you do not have a single widget in it its process will stay in background reducing usable free RAM memory and also CPU will be used quite often and your battery may last a bit less as a result. OS X Mountain Lion centralizes all updates in the Mac App Stores Updates pane. Widgets are one of the best things offered by Mac. When was the last time you opened Dashboard? If you’re like me you never used Dashboard. Dashboard is the kind of thing you either love or hate, using the widgets constantly or not at all.