How to install and configure the ' Weather information indicator ' in Ubuntu 14.10

There are various ways to provide weather information in Ubuntu Desktop, you can use Unity Dash and desktop app to get weather information, such as Typhoon.

But a panel plug-in that can quickly query weather conditions and temperature data and get a lot of weather data with just one mouse click is the most popular weather app in the Linux platform so far.

Atareao's development of My Weather Indicator is one of these applications, and it can be said to be the best one.

It displays real-time temperature and weather conditions on the Unity panel, and has a menu of weather data including body temperature, cloud cover, and sunrise and sunset times. In addition, the app supports desktop widgets, multi-region support, weather data provider selection, and many other configuration options.

Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Let's take a look at how to install and configure it on Ubuntu.

Install my Weather Indicator on Ubuntu

My Weather indicator is not available directly from the Ubuntu software store. However, the developer has provided us with a. Deb installation package and an official PPA (for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 14.10 installation packages).

• Download my Weather Indicator (. Deb installation package)

To make sure your app is up to date, I recommend adding the Atareao PPA to your software image source and then installing it through the PPA.

What do you do? open a new terminal window (Unity Dash > Terminal, or press ctrl+alt+t shortcut), then enter the following two lines of command , during which you need to enter your system password at the prompt:

1. sudo add-apt-repository Ppa:atareao/atareao
3. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install My-weather-indicator

Configure my Weather Indicator

No matter how you install the app, you can search for "weather" in Unity Dash and click on it to open it.

The following configuration window appears the first time you open the app. Here you can manually set up the area or use Geo-ip to get from the move. Or sometimes it may not be accurate enough, but it saves you the manual setup process.

If you are travelling (or are out of the need for a chat), You can add a second region . This setting is the same as the first region, except that it appears in the "Second Region" tab.

Check the " Show Desktop Widgets" option in the " widget settings " area to add a small weather widget to your desktop. Widgets offer many different skins, so you have to carefully pick your favorite one (note: Changes to widgets will not be saved after clicking "OK").

My Weather indicator uses Open Weather MAP as the default weather data provider. However, you can select other data providers in the ' Weather Services ' panel (with * tags required to provide the relevant API key):

• Open Weather Map
• Yahoo! Weather
• Weather underground*
• World Weather online*

In the ' Units ' tab, you can set the units of the data such as temperature, pressure, wind speed, and so on. These settings apply to all added regions, that is, you cannot use degrees Celsius in one region, and the other region uses Fahrenheit.

Finally, on the ' General Options ' tab, you can set the data update interval, set the boot Autorun option, and select one of the two icons as the Panel icon.

If you are command-line, you can also try the method of viewing weather data under Linux.

• This article is from: Linux Learning Network

How to install and configure the ' Weather information indicator ' in Ubuntu 14.10