[Casper] disable Dashboard on lab computers

Chad Brewer chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us
Wed Mar 5 13:17:45 PST 2008


We just used Composer to make a dmg package of the unix command you
mentioned.  It works well.  Now we can put it into a policy or push it
with casper.

Chad

"Jeff Johnson" <jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us> on March 5, 2008 at 12:22
PM -0800 wrote:
>Hello -
>
>Is there a way to use one of the Casper tools to disable Dashboard on lab
>machines (all Macs running 10.4.11)?
>
>I've tried doing this via ARD (3.2) using these commands:
>
>defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES;
>killall Dock
>
>I paste that in the Unix window in ARD and try to run the command as root
>--
>
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>
>-- but I get this error message "No matching processes were found"
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>Any idea on what's wrong? Is there a better way to do this?
>
>Thank you!
>
>Jeff
>--
>Jeff Johnson
>Technology Coordinator
>Glendale-River Hills School District
>2600 W. Mill Rd.
>Glendale, WI 53209
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>
>
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