achinoam01: 10.7: Disable the Location Services Menubar Item

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

10.7: Disable the Location Services Menubar Item

If you do not want to disable Location Services, but would like to remove the 'arrow' from the menubar permanently, you can do that by disabling the system LaunchAgent for the menu item.

Open /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.locationmenu.plist in your editor of choice. I like Lingon (app store link), but any method will do.

If you are using Lingon, look under SystemAgents for com.apple.locationmenu. Select the item, dismiss the warning, and uncheck the 'Enabled' checkbox in the top right corner.

If you are not using Lingon, make sure the following key/value pair is set in the plist:

<key>Disabled</key> <true/>

After your next reboot, the menubar item for location services should no longer show up.

To reverse this change, just go back into Lingon and re-select the 'Enabled' checkbox.

Or, if you edit ...