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#APPLE MAC GEEKTOOL HOW TO#
#APPLE MAC GEEKTOOL INSTALL#

Besides, you can head to the System Preferences pane and remove GeekTool from there if it still exists.

~/Library/Caches, ~/Library/Preferences, ~/Library/Application Support, ~/Library/Saved Application State, ~/Library/LaunchAgents, ~/Library/LaunchDaemons, ~/Library/PreferencePanes, ~/Library/StartupItems Here are the directories that may contain the components of GeekTool:

Click Library under the search box, then select the items that contain the keyword of GeekTool in the search result, right click on any of them, and choose Move to TrashĪgain, search for and delete GeekTool-related items in the /Library folder.

Click Search in upper right corner of the window, type GeekTool in the search bar.

Type ~/Library in the box, and hit Enter key to access to the hidden folder.

In an active Finder window, choose Go > Go to Folder from the Menu bar.

Here are the steps to locate GeekTool components hidden in your system: As a result, you will need to hunt them down around the deep system directories. Those items will not be deleted along with the uninstallation of the app. Most third-party apps will create some associated files/folders and store them outside the app package.

#APPLE MAC GEEKTOOL HOW TO#

Issue 3: how to remove GeekTool remnants?

Head to Launchpad, press and hold the app icon until it starts to jiggle, then click the X icon on the upper left corner of the icon, and click Delete button to confirm.

#APPLE MAC GEEKTOOL INSTALL#

(3) Is the app you want to remove also available in Mac App Store? If you’ve install the App Store version, you can delete this app via the Launchpad. Yet, if your macOS is not compatible with this app, you will not be able to launch either the GeekTool or the Uninstall script.

Locate and double click to open up the GeekTool.dmg file, and double click the Uninstall icon to start the removal.

(2)In the previous versions of GeekTool (like v3.0), the app installation file contains a built-in uninstaller, which you can run to execute the uninstallation directly. We still suggest you to delete GeekTool alone in the Trash to avoid the risk of mistakenly deleting other files in the Trash.īesides, there are two alternative ways to manually delete a third-party app on Mac: Note that the act of emptying the Trash is irrevocable, so make sure everything in Trash is useless before you empty the Trash.

Alternatively, you can choose Empty Trash from the Finder menu, to delete anything thrown into Trash permanently Open up Trash, right click on GeekTool, choose Delete Immediately, and click Delete button in the pop-up confirmation dialog.Alternatively, you can drag the app icon toward the Trash in Dock and drop it into the Trash Locate GeekTool, right click on its icon and choose Move to Trash.Click Finder in Dock, and click Applications from the sidebar to open up the folder.(1) If the version of GeekTool you installed is 3.3 or higher, you should be able to uninstall GeekTool in the /Applications folder, and here are the detailed instructions: Issue 2: how to uninstall GeekTool for Mac? (2) Press Command – Option – ESC(Escape) to bring up the Force Quit Applications window, select the app you want to stop running, and click Force Quit buttonĪfter shutting down GeekTool, you can go ahead to carry out the uninstall task. (1) Launch Activity Monitor in Dock, type GeekTool in the search box, then select the process, click X button on the upper left corner, and click Quit in the pop-up dialog If you can not find out the app icon but suspect it runs in the background, use one of the options below: If GeekTool is running, its icon is supposed to appear in the upper right corner of the screen, from where you can access to the app and quit it normally. Prior to standard uninstall, you should firstly check if the app you want to uninstall is deactivated or not, as in macOS you are not allowed to delete an app when it is in use. Issue 1: what to do before the uninstall? Meanwhile, you can follow the steps to achieve a clean uninstall. Hereby we will discuss 4 issues to help you have a comprehensive understanding of removing Mac apps. Wanna uninstall GeekTool but it does not appear in the /Applications folder? Have deleted this app yet some of its components seem to be remaining in the system? If you come across these problems when trying to remove GeekTool, check out this tutorial to know how you can properly get rid of GeekTool traces from your Mac.