How to find which launcher you placed widgets on? SOLVED ✔

If you got multiple widgets and don’t know where you put widgets on which launcher because you got multiple launchers installed. to find this you have to use adb method so find guide on how to install adb from google then if you’re on Microsoft windows then use following after connecting your device to laptop adb logcat | findstr "com.otp.octopilauncher" this command uses specific launcher which if launcher have widget then in console it should display “org.kustom.widget” (use Edit->find feature using right click on top bar of cmd) in one of the lines and not experimented with fast mode but in theory setting fast refresh mode should result in faster refresh thus that log line should appear more frequent though i have not tried. in my case of running above command resulted in following line
09-11 19:37:10.617 19363 19363 I Utils : HomePackage : com.otp.octopilauncher, resumePackageName : org.kustom.widget
this line repeats in console about every few seconds so look for more frequent lines to find “org.kustom.widget” you can use the specific launcher address to see logs in this case it was com.otp.octopilauncher but you can use alternative method by doing adb logcat | findstr "org.kustom.widget" | findstr "resumePackageName" be keep in mind you need to have some common knowledge in order to use command and see which is the launcher package that is displayed after running this commands. for result of alternative method command is

09-11 21:19:49.909 19363 19363 I Utils   : HomePackage : com.teslacoilsw.launcher, resumePackageName : org.kustom.widget
09-11 21:19:50.051 19363 19363 I Utils   : HomePackage : com.teslacoilsw.launcher, resumePackageName : org.kustom.widget
09-11 21:19:50.223 19363 19363 I Utils   : HomePackage : com.teslacoilsw.launcher, resumePackageName : org.kustom.widget
09-11 21:19:50.280 19363 19363 I Utils   : HomePackage : com.teslacoilsw.launcher, resumePackageName : org.kustom.widget 

which is nova launcher. I removed other widget from octopi launcher, so it shows only launcher which have kustom widget. now I have not yet had time to experience the scenario where widget has gone ghost state so in that case if it results I do not know since I did encountered that issue but I discovered this method today and that issue was before I did factory reset so be sure to let people here know if you have ghost widget and what is result of running command in those case.

also, this method is not very accurate

Thanks
-VaiMalaviya

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