Change Weather Applet preferences in the panel of GNOME /openSUSE 11.3

I want to change Weather Applet preferences which is present in the panel of GNOME /openSUSE.But seems to be locked.Please let me know as to how once can change the default settings.I have already used the weather in the time applet(works well).But i want the weather in a separate applet.

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On 2010-12-26 05:36, vazhavandan wrote:

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Have you used apps as root using su or sudo?

I would search your entire home tree and verify ownerships of all files. It
is possible that something there belongs to root, so that you can not
change it.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

I am not able to figure out the command that lets you start the weather applet in super user mode which enables one to change the preferences for this applet

su should not be necessary. Check the permissions of the files in ‘~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_x’, where x is a number. The files should be owned by you and you should have read and write permissions.

On 2010-12-28 06:06, vazhavandan wrote:
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> I am not able to figure out the command that lets you start the weather
> applet in super user mode which enables one to change the preferences
> for this applet

Don’t do that. I didn’t tell you to do that, and it would not solve anything.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))

@All-thanks for replies

I am going to try this first:-

Check the permissions of the files in ‘~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_x’, where x is a number. The files should be owned by you and you should have read and write permissions.

I seem to have read and write permissions for the preference files :frowning:

On 2010-12-28 18:06, vazhavandan wrote:
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> I seem to have read and write permissions for the preference files :frowning:

Check all the files.

Example:

Code:

find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chmod u+r+w,g+r-w,o-r-w-x ‘{}’ ;
find /home/USERNAME/ -type d -exec chmod u+r+w+x,g-w+r+x,o-r-w-x ‘{}’ ;

find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chown USERNAME:users ‘{}’ ;
find /home/USERNAME/ -type d -exec chown USERNAME:users ‘{}’ ;


That modifies all files and directories, but the find command can do a lot
more. If one file says something “denied”, that one is the culprit, rerun
as root (su).


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

@robin_listas - Except “.gvfs” GVFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia every one of the folders/files fell in line.Even then the stupid applet preferences remain locked
I think the applet’s preferences are meant to stay locked by the developer :slight_smile:

On 2010-12-29 05:36, vazhavandan wrote:
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> @robin_listas - Except “.gvfs” ‘GVFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia’
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS) every one of the folders/files fell
> in line.

That’s a special virtual filesystem, root is denied access to it. It should
belong to you only:

cer@Telcontar:~> l .gvfs
total 52
dr-x------ 2 cer users 0 2010-12-28 14:11 ./

> Even then the stupid applet preferences remain locked

Weird.

> I think the applet’s preferences are meant to stay locked by the
> developer :slight_smile:

No, that is not so. Mine are accessible, but I have 11.2. Try creating a
new user, it should work. If it doesn’t, then perhaps you have an updated
version with a bug.

Or perhaps you could try looking inside gconf-editor :-?


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

Preferences work well in the weather functionality that is built into the clock on panel
But it is not working in the stand alone weather applet
Guess I will go back to using the clock based weather applet

Why don’t you try taking this up on the Gnome mailing list (opensuse-gnome@opensuse.org). This will get you in contact with the developers.

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@ chief_sealth-Thanks ,will do