wmforecast

GitHub release (latest by date)

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 &

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