gnome-shell-extension-openweather is a simple extension for displaying weather conditions and forecasts in GNOME Shell, featuring support for multiple locations, no need for WOEID, a symmetrical layout and a settings panel through gnome-shell-extension-prefs.

Currently, the weather data, including forecasts for up to ten days, is fetched from OpenWeatherMap.

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Installation

After the installation, restart GNOME Shell (Alt+F2, r, Enter) and enable the extension through gnome-tweak-tool.

Through a package manager

Debian

Debian uses the (former master now ) yahoo-branch !

My fork of the extension is currently only available for unstable/sid.

Install the package through APT (or use your favourite package-manager, e.g. synaptic):

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-weather

Generic (Local installation)

Make sure you have the following dependencies installed:

• dconf,
• gettext,
• pkg-config,
• git,
• glib2 (and development packages),
• zip,
• gnome-common,
• autoconf,
• automake,
• intltool.
• gnome-tweak-tool.

Run the following commands:

cd ~ && git clone git://github.com/jenslody/gnome-shell-extension-weather.git
cd ~/gnome-shell-extension-weather
./autogen.sh && make local-install

If you want to use openweathermap.org without deprecated Soup.SessionAsync (less TCP Retransmission), please use the openweathermap branch instead. You need to have at least gnome-shell version 3.8 .

cd ~ && git clone git://github.com/jenslody/gnome-shell-extension-weather.git
cd ~/gnome-shell-extension-weather
git checkout openweathermap
./autogen.sh && make local-install

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Configuration

Launch gnome-shell-extension-prefs (reachable also through the OpenWeather Settings button on the extension popup) and select OpenWeather from the drop-down menu to edit the configuration.

You can also use dconf-editor or gsettings to configure the extension through the command line.

If you switch from old openweathermap to the new master ( or openweathermap), you can load the settings with

dconf dump /org/gnome/shell/extensions/weather/ | dconf load /org/gnome/shell/extensions/openweather/

This can also work for most locations, if you switch from old yahoo-based master-branch (now yahoo) to the new master-branch (openweathermap-based).

The OpenWeatherMap maintainers recommend to use an API key. This key can be added in the preferences dialog.

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Licence

Copyright (C) 2011 - 2013

• Elad Alfassa elad@fedoraproject.org,
• Mark Benjamin weather.gnome.Markie1@dfgh.net,
• Simon Claessens gagalago@gmail.com,
• Ecyrbe ecyrbe+spam@gmail.com,
• Timur Kristóf venemo@msn.com,
• Simon Legner Simon.Legner@gmail.com,
• Mattia Meneguzzo odysseus@fedoraproject.org,
• Christian Metzler neroth@xeked.com,
• Jens Lody jens@jenslody.de.

This file is part of gnome-shell-extension-openweather.

gnome-shell-extension-openweather is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

gnome-shell-extension-openweather is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with gnome-shell-extension-openweather. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.