On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Mike Wright <mike.wri...@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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