You might like Meteo - https://gitlab.com/bitseater/meteo
I personally have been using the Weather Underground website & Android app for many years now. I'm not so keen on desktop apps. On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 3:39 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > 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 uses the same out of date location for weather data.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 > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
