It can not get weather data.
Has the “provider” changed the “api” so that the tool does not work, or is it a bug?
I have two installations with the same problem, so it is not likely a user error.
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It doesn’t work - on any distro I have before my eyes - among others, Fedora, ArchLinux, Mandriva. It hasn’t worked for months.
It really doesn’t work for sometime now.
It was a problem with the weather server.
There was an announcement in the xfce site regarding this
almost a year now.
On 2012-08-07 20:56, conram wrote:
>
> It really doesn’t work for sometime now.
> It was a problem with the weather server.
> There was an announcement in the xfce site regarding this
> almost a year now.
Oh 
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On 2012-08-07 20:56, please try again wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2478847 Wrote:
>> It can not get weather data.
>>
>> Has the “provider” changed the “api” so that the tool does not work, or
>> is it a bug?
>> I have two installations with the same problem, so it is not likely a
>> user error.
>>
>
> It doesn’t work - on any distro I have before my eyes - among others,
> Fedora, ArchLinux, Mandriva. It hasn’t worked for months.
Oh
But only for xfce, or other desktops have it working?
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Only xfce.
In xfce 4.10 it is now called weather update
I have not used it since I upgraded to xfce 4.10 as I am using the cairo-dock weather.
A while ago I tried adding it in xfce-panel and found-out that it is now working.
On 2012-08-08 02:36, please try again wrote:
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> robin_listas;2478872 Wrote:
>> But only for xfce, or other desktops have it working?
>>
>>
>
> Only xfce.
How can that be?
I thought that weather applications ask directly data from web weather services, parsing the web
pages they load. If that page changes the layout, all applets in all desktops and versions stop
working simultaneously.
Unless xfce uses an intermediate server to query weather services, and it is that server which does
not work. :-?
Then nothing can be done
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On 2012-08-08 14:16, conram wrote:
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> In xfce 4.10 it is now called weather update
I don’t know exactly how to verify the xfce version, the about box does not say. Ah, yes! 4.8. So I
can not have it.
> I have not used it since I upgraded to xfce 4.10 as I am using the
> cairo-dock weather.
Cairo-dock? Is that not a KDE thing?
> A while ago I tried adding it in xfce-panel and found-out that it is
> now working.
:-?
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First from your post after mine
If memory serves the xfce panel-plugin stop due to the weather server change the policy
from free to pay per usage. Probably it is working now because they were able to find another server
but not sure about this because I haven’t got the time looking into xfce news this days.
Cairo-dock works on KDE and xfce and I noticed, it works better in xfce. ( see my screenshots in the screenshot section)
> A while ago I tried adding it in xfce-panel and found-out that it is
> now working.
:-?
Try xfce 4.10 and see if the xfce panel-weather update-plugin will work for you too.
On 2012-08-09 04:16, conram wrote:
> First from your post after mine
> If memory serves the xfce panel-plugin stop due to the weather server
> change the policy from free to pay per usage.
But other desktops do not have that problem.
> Probably it is working now because they
> were able to find another server
> but not sure about this because I haven’t got the time looking into
> xfce news this days.
Might be that.
> Cairo-dock works on KDE and xfce and I noticed, it works better in
> xfce.
Ah.
> ( see my screenshots in the screenshot section)
That’s a bit difficult via nntp 
> Try xfce 4.10 and see if the xfce panel-weather update-plugin will work
> for you too.
What repo, please? 
There a wiki page dedicated to it:
http://en.opensuse.org/Xfce
but it has no links to any repos that I can see :-?
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Carlos E. R.
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What repo, please?
There a wiki page dedicated to it:
but it has no links to any repos that I can see :-?
You have two options, download and compile xfce 4.10 from xfce site
or add this in your repository and upgrade Index of /repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_12.1
On 2012-08-09 12:36, conram wrote:
> You have two options, download and compile xfce 4.10 from xfce site
> or add this in your repository and upgrade ‘Index of
> /repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_12.1’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_12.1/)
Ah, that’s the repo, thanks.
Ok, updated to that one.
I had to add the weather applet, it disappeared. Now it works!
There are somethings I dislike of this new version. I get an applet on the right corner to log out,
reboot, etc, but instead of an icon it displays my full name and surname! And I cant disable that. I
can switch to another mode which displays 6 (six) icons! What an awful space waste. Previously it
was just one icon.
Another similar one. I’m using an extra applications menu, using “/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu”.
It insists on displaying the full name “Application menu” and an icon, I can’t tell it to display
just the icon - oh, ok, yes, this one I can.
All the applets I had configured have disappeared, I had to add them all again.
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