For years I have used xfce4-weather-plugin in my Xubuntu 18.04 panel. Unfortunately, it is hard coded to secure weather information from a place in Norway, which periodically changes its requirements, rendering the plugin unusable. And this has just happened yet again, leaving me trying to find an alternative - preferably one that uses a stable service for weather data.
And to clarify, the version that I have installed was 0.8.9, which I upgraded to 0.8.10, the latest in the 18.04 repositories, but it still uses the same out of date location for weather data. I also found a version 0.10.0, available only as an archive, and after extracting it I discovered that it must be installed from source. I tried to do so, but it failed due to a missing dependency. And I also found a .deb file for 0.10.1, which also failed to install because of a different missing dependency. This latter dependency made reference to a version => 4.13, which I am pretty sure refers to the version 4.12 of Xfce that I have. Version 4.14 is the latest, but getting 4.12 to work on my UHD monitors took several days. Yes, I'll have to go there some day, but for now I wish to stay where I am. I should add the fact that this little xfce4 panel plugin has never been very accurate. I like its simplicity, but it wouldn't break my heart to say goodbye to it. Accordingly, I tried my-weather-indicator from the repositories, only to discover that it insists on finding my location for me, with the result that all I can get is weather for Miami FL, the location of the server that my VPN currently has me connected to. And since that was unacceptable, I tried gnome-weather and a couple others, but I didn't like any of them. So my question is, does anyone have any suggestions for a weather app? _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
