[PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Thu Sep 10 22:39:36 UTC 2020


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uses the same out of date location for weather data.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?




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