wmforecast

http://wmforecast.friedcheese.org

wmforecast is a weather dockapp for Window Maker using libgweather.

The icons were designed by MerlinTheRed and are available at http://merlinthered.deviantart.com/art/plain-weather-icons-157162192.

Download

There are several options for obtaining wmforecast:

• Download a tarball from the releases page.

• Clone the git repository.

    git clone https://github.com/d-torrance/wmforecast
  

• Packages are available for Debian-based distributions.

    sudo apt install wmforecast
  

  This may give you an older version. To obtain the latest version in Ubuntu, you may use the PPA.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:profzoom/dockapps
    sudo apt install wmforecast
  

Installation

• To compile wmforecast from source, you will need the following.

  • libgweather
  • WINGs
  • (optional) GeoClue

• If building from a tarball, do the following after extracting the source.

    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
  

• If building from git, you will first need to generate the configure script.

    ./autogen.sh
  

  Then proceed as above.

Usage

wmforecast [OPTIONS]
Options:
-v, --version            print the version number
-h, --help               print this help screen
-i, --interval <min>     number of minutes between refreshes (default 60)
-u, --units <c|f>        whether to use Celsius or Fahrenheit (default f)
-b, --background <color> set background color
-t, --text <color>       set text color
-p, --latitude <coord>   set latitude
-l, --longitude <coord>  set longitude
-I, --icondir <dir>      set icon directory
                         (default /usr/local/share/wmforecast)
-n, --no-geoclue         disable geoclue
-w, --windowed           run in windowed mode
-d, --days               number of days to show in forecast (default 7)

Hover the mouse over the icon to display a balloon with the forecast for the next several days. Middle click to switch the balloon to display the current conditions.

Geoclue

If using Geoclue >= 2.5.7, then you may get the following error after clicking the "Find Coords" button in the preferences window:

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: 'wmforecast' disallowed, no agent for UID 1000

To fix this, run Geoclue's demo agent. On Debian-based systems, this is located at /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent. In Window Maker, you can run this at startup by adding the following line to ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart:

/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent &

See also: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/issues/143

Bugs

Please report bugs and feature requests at the issues page.

Copyright

wmforecast

2014-2023 Doug Torrance
dtorrance@piedmont.edu
GNU General Public License v3+

icons

2010 MerlinTheRed
http://merlinthered.deviantart.com/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License