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I'm trying to remove unused Today widgets from the Notification Center panel, although it's not clear on how to get rid of them (delete permanently).
The unused items show up after clicking the "Edit" button at the bottom of the Today Screen, but the only thing that the +/- seems to do is either add it to the panel or put it in a pile of unused widgets. I would like to remove some third party today widgets entirely, as I don't even have the application installed any longer.
I will admit, I hadn't noticed that the defaults write command stopped working in Mavericks.
However, when I DO clean network mounts, instead of your one liner find and rm, I use this:
dot_clean .
The manfile explains:
dot_clean -- Merge ._* files with corresponding native files.
I don't use the -m flag, but you may find it helpful in your situation.
-m Always delete dot underbar files.
Here is another person actively trying to stop .DS_Store files from being created: http://www.aorensoftware.com/blog/2011/12/24/death-to-ds_store/ - looks like he doesn't want them on drives as much as he doesn't want them on the network!
My own experience (on 10.9) is that the service uses the default search engine selected for the default browser, so right now my own "Search with…" says "Search DuckDuckGo for…" and will open in Firefox.
This doesn't answer your other questions, but it may mean you don't need to bother. I hope it helps. I've an old system running 10.6 so I'll give that a look when I get a chance and see if the same can be done there.
Best Answer
The following assumes you've got a widget called ExampleWidget.
Ensure that you've removed the application, even if it's running out of your Downloads folder.
To do this, launch Terminal.app on your Mac and type the following commands:
rm -fr /Applications/ExampleWidget*rm -fr ~/Downloads/ExampleWidget*Restart Notification Center by running the following command:
pkill -9 -f "NotificationCenter$"