Steven Stern wrote: > On 06/28/2010 01:10 PM, Mike Wright 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. >> >> Bug, idiot, both? (cheap shot accepted) >> >> Sign this wasted way too many hours, >> Mike Wright > > Right clicking and selecting "remove from panel" works for me. > > $ ps -ef |grep weather > sdstern 2220 1 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/libexec/gweather-applet-2 > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_GWeatherApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=30 > > $ yum provides "*/gweather-applet-2" > 1:gnome-applets-2.30.0-1.fc13.i686 : Small applications for the GNOME panel > Repo : installed > Matched from: > Filename : /usr/libexec/gweather-applet-2 > > Applets are controlled from ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/ > > With Gnome closed, you should be able to remove the controlling > subdirectory if "remove from panel" fails. Hate to be a gnub in that case ;D > > What's so horrible about it contacting NOAA? How else is it supposed to > get the weather? I was traffic tracing on a private network. Needed to eliminate everything. That's how I found that the app (with your invaluable assistance) while indeed being removed from the panel was not being destroyed i.e. removed from .gconf/apps/panel/applets (definite bug and NOT fedora's). Thanx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
