gnome-shell-extension-weather

gnome-shell-extension-weather is a simple extension for displaying weather notifications in Gnome Shell.

Currently, the weather report including forecast for today and tomorrow is fetched from Yahoo.

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Installation

From the command line

1. ./autogen.sh --prefix="/usr"
2. make
3. sudo make install

That's it!

Configuration

Gnome extension weather use gsettings to save your configuration. you can use dconf-editor or gsettings from the command line to modify some parameters

Location (cf WOEID)

You can specify your location buy using this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather woeid 'your location'

Temperature units (optional, celsius by default)

You can modify the temperature unit with the following command

 gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather unit 'celsius'

or

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather unit 'fahrenheit'

Displayed location (optional)

Sometimes your woeid location isn't quite right. it's the next major city around. to customise the displayed city you can type :

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather city 'your city'

Restart Gnome-Shell

Don't forget to restart Gnome-Shell

1. Restart Gnome Shell ([Alt]+[F2], r)
2. Fork this project as you like

Licence

Copyright (C) 2011 Ecyrbe ecyrbe+spam@gmail.com, Timur Kristóf venemo@msn.com, Elad Alfassa elad@fedoraproject.org, Simon Legner Simon.Legner@gmail.com

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

gnome-shell-extension-weather 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-weather 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-weather. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.