How to use a Conky weather plug-in similar to a smartphone in Linux

How to use a Conky weather plug-in similar to a smartphone in Linux

Smart phones all have some small Weather plug-ins that smoothly integrate the appearance of mobile phones. Thanks to the Flair Weather Conky, you can have the same weather appearance as your smartphone on your Linux Desktop. We will use a GUI tool Conky Manager to easily manage Conky in Linux. Let's take a look at how to install Conky Manager in Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Linux Mint 17, and other Linux releases.

 

Install Conky Manager

Open a terminal and run the following command:

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install conky-manager

You can read this article about how to use Conky Manager in Linux.

 

Ensure curlInstalled

Make sure that the curl has been installed. If you have not installed it, run the following command to install it:

1. sudo apt-get install curl

 

Download Flair Weather Conky

Download the Flair Weather Conky script from the following link:

• Download the Flair Weather Conky script

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Free in http://linux.bkjia.com/

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Use the Flair Weather Conky script in Conky Manager

 

Step 1:

Like installing theme in Ubuntu 14.04, there should be.conkyDirectory. If you use the command line, I don't want to tell you how to find this directory. For beginners, use the File Manager to switch to your home directory and pressCtrl+HTo display hidden files in Ubuntu.

See: show hidden files and folders in Ubuntu 13.04

Search here.conkyFolder. If no folder exists, create one.

 

Step 2:

In.conkyDirectory, decompress the downloaded Flair Weather file. Note that by default, it will automatically decompress it to.conkyDirectory. So please go to this directory, take out the Flair Weather folder, and paste it to the real.conkyDirectory.

 

Step 3:

Flair Weather uses Yahoo's Weather service, but it cannot automatically identify your location. You need to manually edit it. Go to the Yahoo weather webpage and enter your city/Pin code to get the ID of your city location. You can obtain the location ID from the address bar of the webpage.

 

Step 4:

Open Conky Manager, which should be able to read the newly installed Conky script. Two styles are available, black or bright. You can choose the one you prefer. After you select, you can see the conky display on the desktop.

In Flair Weather, the default position is set to Melbourne. You must manually edit the conky file.

 

Step 5:

In the above, you can see that there is an option to edit the selected conky script. In the open Editor, find location or WOEID and change itStep 3The location ID. Then restart Conky.

In the same location as above, if youu=cReplaceu=f, Then the temperature unit will change from the Celsius temperature to the Fahrenheit temperature. Do not forget to restart Conky to view the modifications that have been made.

 

Possible troubleshooting

In Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10, if you find that the time displayed by Conky overlaps, edit the conky script. Find the following rows:

1. ## cairo-compmgr
2. own_window_type override
3. own_window_argb_visual no

Replace the content with the following rows:

1. ## cairo-compmgr
2. own_window_type dock
3. own_window_argb_visual no

Save the changes and restart conky. This should solve this problem. Thanks to Jesse (the developer of this Conky script) for providing us with this solution and support for other related issues.

 

Try it

In this article, we actually learned a lot. We have witnessed how to easily use any Conky script, how to edit the script, and how to use Conky Manager for different purposes. I hope these will be useful to you.

Note that Ubuntu 14.10 users may see overlapping time numbers. Please report any related issues on Jesse's wonderful Google + homepage.

I have shown you the Flair Weather conky appearance on my system. It's time for you to try it and show off your desktop.

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