How to remove troublesome GeekTool geeklets
Fri, Oct 23 2009 at 7:30AM PDT • Contributed by: Anonymous
Fri, Oct 23 2009 at 7:30AM PDT • Contributed by: Anonymous
I love GeekTool, but ran into a roadblock when one of my geeklets caused it to freeze on startup, and I couldn't remove the offending widget from within the System Preferences panel. So, after digging around, I discovered that the geeklets are stored as plist files at ~/Library » Preferences » org.tynsoe.geeklet.*.
You can open these files in the Property List Editor (or PListEdit Pro), and look through the entries to find the problematic script, and delete the entry (or fix it, I assume). Then, save the file, restart GeekTool from System Preferences, and you should be good to go.
After having to do that a few times, you will probably figure out what is causing the freeze and be able to fix your script. For me, using $>tail -f <file_name>, caused it to freeze, but using a file geeklet with the same filename, I was able to get the same result.
You can open these files in the Property List Editor (or PListEdit Pro), and look through the entries to find the problematic script, and delete the entry (or fix it, I assume). Then, save the file, restart GeekTool from System Preferences, and you should be good to go.
After having to do that a few times, you will probably figure out what is causing the freeze and be able to fix your script. For me, using $>tail -f <file_name>, caused it to freeze, but using a file geeklet with the same filename, I was able to get the same result.
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