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I recently installed GGTS. It's been good so far but it's starting to annoy me how the dashboard (window) keeps showing up on start up. I checked the preferences but there's nothing there that switches it off. I attempted to uninstall the feature, but the GGTS won't allow me.

Psycho Punch
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  • usually if you close the dashboard, shutdown STS/GGTS, and reopen it, the dashboard shouldn't show up again. Is that not the case for you? What version of GGTS do you use? – Martin Lippert Jul 14 '15 at 16:36
  • That's not what's happening with mine. I'm using GGTS 3.6.2.RELEASE. – Psycho Punch Jul 15 '15 at 09:27

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You are probably running into this bug: STS-3935. The dashboard is supposed to stay closed when you close it, but in some situations in STS 3.6.2 it doesn't.

If you upgrade to a newer version of STS the problem should go away. If you do not want to upgrade your STS, you can also try running with JDK 8 (so you'll get the new dashboard which is not subject to the bug).

Or, another workaround suggested in the bug-report is to open manually edit the preferences file at workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.springsource.ide.eclipse.dashboard.ui.prefs and add or change the line:

org.springsource.ide.eclipse.dashboard.uidashboard.startup=false

Read the bug report if you need more details.

Kris
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