Wtf is this "Where Am I"

Hey, I was looking at my programs to use for something totally unrelated to what I found here. I found this weird program called “Where Am I”. No idea what it does beyond location. Should I be concerned?

My guess is that it’s this. If you have not installed any suspicious packages from suspicious sources to your system, I would not be worried about it. :slightly_smiling_face:

Give full path and contents and we can be sure.

The icon is your classic GPS style icon (albeit hard to see with dark mode). Looks to be some sort of location service.

Can’t seem to find it in Application Finder? It only shows up in the program selector. It’s so ominously named too.

What OS and DE are you using to produce this “Open With…” menu? Somehow looks like a smartphone or tablet?

Endeavour, XCFE 4.2

Is it on a GPS-enabled device? (I wonder where these “wheelmap.org” and “Where am I?” entries come from, usually a phone or tablet would add these, but I have no XFCE install here right now.)

It’s a laptop. HP. I noticed wheelmap too. I’ve never been on that site before though.

Do you have orca installed?

pacman -Qi orca

Seems I do.

It has nothing to do with Xfce, Orca is the screen reader from Gnome.

Well, orca is where “Where Am I” comes from.

The command I listed above will have a field called “Install Reason.” Does it say “Explicitly installed” by any chance, or does it show as being installed as a dependency of another package?

As far as I can tell, orca has only ever been required by pantheon-desktop and pantheon-session (plus it was briefly an optional dependency of prismlauncher).

In regards to Wheelmap:

Do you have kguiaddons installed?

pacman -Qi kguiaddons

It doesn’t matter where it comes from, sometimes DE packages show up in other DEs, I still know this from Ubuntu

Also yes. I think I could probably just delete these then. Probably leftover from when I was installing Endeavour.

Perhaps kguiaddons was pulled in as a dependency for Konqueror, if you did install Konqueror as you mentioned in this other thread:

It’s not part of the Xfce edition, and the screen reader is mostly for people with visual deficiencies,