Good Bye, Weather Indicator

[buzzingrobot]

Good bye, little Weather Indicator. I have removed you from my startup roster. You are a crashy little thing, aren't you?

I guess I'll just look out the window from now on.

[VE6EFR]

I had the same problem. Would run fine for a few hours then crash. No worries though since there are other ways we can get weather data. But it was nice to have it available at a glance.

[buzzingrobot]

I had the same problem. Would run fine for a few hours then crash. No worries though since there are other ways we can get weather data. But it was nice to have it available at a glance.

I came across this little BASH script that displays weather in a terminal. Replace the question marks with a zip/post code:

curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-?????}"|perl -ne '/<title>([^<]+)/&&printf "%s: ",$1;/<fcttext>([^<]+)/&&print $1,"\n " ' | fmt -t;

There are any number of similar scripts around that grab the weather and parse out the relevant text. I suppose if I was clever I could run this as a cron job and use a notification for the display.

[scouser73]

It never worked for me when I had installed it.

[hansdown]

Good bye, little Weather Indicator. I have removed you from my startup roster. You are a crashy little thing, aren't you?

I guess I'll just look out the window from now on.

The last time it worked well for me, was 10.04.

The one in mint13 cinnamon is very sleek.

[Mikeb85]

I could usually have it running for several days at a time before it crashed... Still always would crash in the end though.

[Roasted]

Neat little terminal trick. I threw together a bash script, put this command in, and added read; exit on the end. Then I set up a hot key (CTRL ALT M) to launch:

"gnome-terminal -e weather"

and it brings up a terminal with the weather. Once I hit enter, it closes, thanks to the addition of read; exit.

#!/bin/bash
curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-?????}"|perl -ne '/<title>([^<]+)/&&printf "%s: ",$1;/<fcttext>([^<]+)/&&print $1,"\n " ' | fmt -t; read; exit

[Frogs Hair]

Check out my weather indicator at the link. Indicator-weather is listed, just go further down the page . I have used this prior to 12.04. http://askubuntu.com/questions/30334...-are-available

[BigSilly]

Check out my weather indicator at the link. Indicator-weather is listed, just go further down the page . I have used this prior to 12.04. http://askubuntu.com/questions/30334...-are-available

That's excellent, thank you. Just installed on 12.04 no problem.

[VE6EFR]

Check out my weather indicator at the link. Indicator-weather is listed, just go further down the page . I have used this prior to 12.04. http://askubuntu.com/questions/30334...-are-available

I'm pretty sure that's the one that I was running that was crashing all the time on 12.04 LTS. Maybe the OP can chime in to confirm if that was the same one they were running.