<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div><div><div>On Mar 5, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Leacy, Miles wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font size="4"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">I’ve found that this plist alone is not enough to disable Dashboard.<br> <br> When you use the script:<br> defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES;<br> killall Dock<br> <br> Dashboard still exists as a component of Dock.app, and a standalone app in /Applications. It can still be invoked by hotkey, or by directly launching either app.<br> <br> The way I disable dashboard in Tiger is to run the following script:<br> <br> #!/bin/sh<br> <br> mkdir -p /Library/polo/disabled/Dock<br> <br> cp -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/Wid* /Library/polo/disabled/Dock/<br> rm -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/Wid*<br> <br> cp -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/wid* /Library/polo/disabled/Dock/<br> rm -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/wid*<br> <br> cp -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/Dash* /Library/polo/disabled/Dock/<br> rm -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/Dash*<br> <br> cp -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/dash* /Library/polo/disabled/Dock/<br> rm -R /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock/Contents/Resources/dash*<br> <br> cp -R /Library/Widgets /Library/polo/disabled/<br> rm -R /Library/Widgets<br> <br> cp -R /Applications/Dashboard.app /Library/polo/disabled/<br> rm -R /Applications/Dashboard.app<br> <br> chmod -R 700 /Library/polo/disabled<br> <br> for i in $( ls /Users/ );<br> do<br> fn=$i<br> if test ${i:FIRST:1} != "." -a $i != "Shared"; then cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist; cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist; chown -R $i /Users/$i/Library/Preferences; fi<br> <br> <br> Done<br> <br> # end script<br> <br> The Dashboard hotkey must be turned off too. If you leave the Dashboard hotkey active after removing/deleting Dashboard, the Dock will crash and relaunch when you press the hotkey. It doesn’t seem to have any ill effect other than an annoying “blinking” of the dock.<br> <br> The “for” statement at the end copies a hotkey plist from the user template to all existing home folders. The script was written before I adopted Casper and was a postflight script in a .pkg that put the plist into the User Template. A .dmg package containing the plist and set to FUT and FEU would accomplish the same thing, but you’ll still need the rest of the script to perform the Dashboard-ectomy.<br> <br> <br> On 3/5/08 3:49 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <<a href="mailto:tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a>> wrote:<br> <br> </span></font></font><blockquote type="cite"><font size="4"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">I think you need to include the full file path of where that plist<br> lives, also can you show us the exact command? <br> <br> Thomas Larkin<br> TIS Department<br> KCKPS USD500<br> <a href="mailto:tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a><br> cell: 913-449-7589<br> office: 913-627-0351<br> >>> "Jeff Johnson" <<a href="mailto:jeff.johnson@glendale.k12.wi.us">jeff.johnson@glendale.k12.wi.us</a>> 03/05/08 2:22 PM<br> >>><br> Hello -<br> <br> Is there a way to use one of the Casper tools to disable Dashboard on<br> lab<br> machines (all Macs running 10.4.11)?<br> <br> I've tried doing this via ARD (3.2) using these commands:<br> <br> defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES;<br> killall Dock<br> <br> I paste that in the Unix window in ARD and try to run the command as<br> root<br> --<br> <br> [Image:3508_15735_1.png]<br> <br> -- but I get this error message "No matching processes were found"<br> [Image:3508_15803_2.png]<br> Any idea on what's wrong? Is there a better way to do this?<br> <br> Thank you!<br> <br> Jeff<br> --<br> Jeff Johnson<br> Technology Coordinator<br> Glendale-River Hills School District<br> 2600 W. 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