Free desktop weather software for linux

Better Weather contains a couple of scripts using normal KDE and Linux tools to provide better display of weather info than KDEs weather applet. It downloads the information from the US national weather service and maps from weather.com. Two launchers on the main menubar bring up the window separately. Full details and instructions are in the readme.

This is a solution that worked for me, not being a coder. You have to make it work for you. Its an idea and a set of tools. Its also US-centric, but someone may take the idea and make it work just as well anywhere. I hope someone finds it as useful as I do.

WHAT IT DOES

The tools I wrote are two *very* simple bash scripts. The script, localwx.sh, invokes the python weather utility, and downloads the current weather conditions and forecast in text format from the weather service. It stores the information temporarily in a text file (I chose the desktop as the directory in which to save it.) It then "reads" the text file into a kdialog box. When the "ok" button is clicked, the temporary file is deleted.

The other script, wxmap.sh, downloads a current local weather map image using wget, saves it temporarily to the desktop, and calls Kview to display it. When Kview closes, the temporary image file is deleted.

HOW I DID IT

The man pages for "weather," "kdialog," and "wget" were useful for determining which options to use. The script for weather forecasts has to be edited to receive the data for the users current location. My nearest airport is PDK, so my ID was "KPDK." The rest is straightforward enough. To make the weather map script work, you can go to weather.com or your local tv station website and copy the image location for the weather map they use. It can be pasted into the script.

Once the scripts were edited to suit, I made them executable (chmod +x filename), copied them to /usr/local/bin, and created a launcher for each in my main menubar. Describing the process is a lot more difficult than actually doing the work!

Desktop Gmail is a superkaramba theme which uses wget to read the rss feed for your Gmail inbox and displays it on a GUI. It displays upto twenty latest messages(five at a time) as well as the no. of total unread messages.

It shows the name of the author of the mail as well as the subject of the mail. On hovering over the name, a tooltip containing the authors email id is displayed and when hovered over the subject, the summary of the body is shown.

This theme displays upto 20 latest messages from your Gmail inbox(5 at a time), the authors of the message and the no. of unread messages.

On hovering over the name, the email id is displayed and on hovering over subject, a summary of the body is displayed.

Open gmail.py and enter your username and password.(see readme for details).

Acme::Test::Weather is a Perl module to test the weather conditions for a user.

SYNOPSIS

use Test::Weather;
plan tests => 2;

# You may only install something
# when its nice outside.

&isnt_snowing();
&isnt_cloudy();

# output:

1..2
ok 1 - its partly cloudy in Montreal, Canada
not ok 2 - its partly cloudy in Montreal, Canada
# Failed test (./t/mtl.t at line 5)
# Partly Cloudy
# matches (?i-xsm:bcloudy)
# Looks like you failed 1 tests of 2.

The package determines a users location by looking up their hostname / IP address using the CAIDA::NetGeo::Client package.

Based on the data returned, weather conditions are polled using the Weather::Underground package.

Because, you know, it may be important to your Perl module that its raining outside...

PACKAGE FUNCTIONS

&is_cloudy()

Make sure it is cloudy, but remember the silver lining.

&isnt_cloudy()

No clouds. Not even little fluffy ones.

&is_raining()

Make sure it is raining.

&isnt_raining()

Make sure sure it is not raining.

&is_snowing()

Make sure it is snowing.

&isnt_snowing()

Make sure it is not snowing.

&is_sunny()

Make sure it is sunny.

&isnt_sunny()

Make sure it is not sunny. Why are you so angry?

&eq_celsius($int)

Temperature in degrees Celsius.

>_celsius($int)

Cooler than, in degrees Celcius.

_fahrenheit($int)

Warmer than, in degrees Fahrenheit.

_humidity($int)

Humidity is greater than.

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