toolbar weather applet
Dale Dellutri
daledellutri at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 18:46:05 UTC 2010
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Mike Wright <mike.wright at mailinator.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Trying desperately not to rant but am very frustrated by this.
>
> I made the mistake of adding the Weather applet to a toolbar and now I
> can't turn it off (tcpdump shows it phoning home).
>
> Right click the applet and unclick Update. No go. Updates anyway. OK.
> Remove applet from toolbar. No go. Updates anyway.
>
> OK. Logout/Login. Still insists on updating.
>
> I never reboot. OK, reboot. Still calling home to NOAA. What???
>
> Can't figure out the name of the program that the applet calls so I
> can't manually destroy the pestilence. This apparently is not something
> considered worth noting in the Help/About links and is certainly not
> available from the Add to Panel function.
>
> Where is it registered and how in the !#@$ do I kill it?
>
> Second question is how do we learn the names of the programs that are
> invoked by these applets? If I can't learn the name how do I yum
> update/remove short of rm -rf /?
>
> This is with Weather Report 2.24.3.1 (/usr/bin/you'll never find me,
> Copper ;) on f10.
>
I think that this is part of the gnome-applets rpm, specifically, gweather.
I'm not sure what the executable name is, but it must be something
with gweather or GWeather in the name. Perhaps it's
/usr/libexec/gweather-applet-2
Also,
find / -iname \*gweather\*
should find all of its files.
--
Dale Dellutri
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