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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