[X4U] Miscellaneous Dashboard Question

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 21 08:02:42 PDT 2006


On 6/21/06 6:47 AM, Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net> wrote:

> ---- Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
>> I noticed that Dashboard doesn¹t load automatically after startup but the
>> Widgets only loads after you click it, then they stay loaded in memory which
>> is fine. I assume it¹s to save system resources? I¹ve been looking at this
>> with Activity Monitor now you can see each Widget¹s process but you can¹t
>> see the actual Dashboard app itself and what¹s it¹s using. Why is that? Is
>> it under another name?
> 
> For whatever reason, Dashboard is controlled by the Dock. Force Quitting Dock
> will kill all Dashboard Widgets.

You don't have to Force Quit the Dock, you can just Quit it regularly using
Activity Monitor.

-- 
Eddie Hargreaves




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