GNOME Shell Weather Extension by Neroth is a fork of the original GNOME Shell Weather Extension, which compared to the original, comes with multiple locations support, you don't have to manually enter a WOEID and bug fixes (the weather information seems to load a lot faster with this extension). It displays the current weather conditions along with a forecast for today and tomorrow on the top GNOME Shell panel.
The extension lets you easily search for a city within its settings, so you don't have to enter any WOEID from weather.yahoo.com like in the original version. From its settings, you can also configure the temperature unit, wind speed unit, position on the panel, enable/disable: symbolic icons, show temperature on the panel and conditions on the panel.
It supports adding multiple locations, but it can't display the weather for all in the same time and you must click a city in its preferences to get it to show up on the top GNOME Shell panel.
GNOME Shell Weather Extension by Neroth is not available on extensions.gnome.org, but it can easily be installed in Ubuntu. But before installing this fork, make sure you've removed the original GNOME Shell Weather Extension, or else there will be a conflict:Code: Select all
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-extensions-weather
Then, add the PPA and install GNOME Shell Weather Extension by Neroth in Ubuntu 11.10, 12.04 or 12.10 (I've only tested it on Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME Shell 3.4) using the following commands:Code: Select all
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-shell-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-weather
There are packages available for Arch Linux, Fedora and ALT Linux too - check out GNOME Shell Weather Extension by Neroth on GitHub.
Once installed, restart GNOME Shell (ALT + F2 and enter "r" or log out and log back in) and activate it using GNOME Tweak Tool.
OK, so, Linux Mint is well more than compatible with 'buntified garbage. Or is it? I added the repo, ran apt-get update just like it said to, and (note the repo it came from, please)...:
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dedanna ~ # add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-shell-extensions
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
gnome-shell-extensions
Various Gnome-Shell-Extensions (Weather and others) packaged for Ubuntu Linux operating system
More info: https://launchpad.net/~gnome-shell-extensions/+archive/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.u2kTITsB9N --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ --recv B8EB77D6D316A172755800C15FFFCB6756E761C2
gpg: requesting key 56E761C2 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 56E761C2: public key "Launchpad PPA for Gnome-Shell-Extensions developers" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
--->(I will not add all the apt-get update stuff afterwards; it doesn't matter and is VERY long)
dedanna ~ # apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-weather
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gnome-js-common libseed-gtk3-0 seed
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gnome-js-common gnome-shell-extension-weather libseed-gtk3-0 seed
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
Need to get 245 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,802 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
----->Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe gnome-js-common all 0.1.2-1 [20.9 kB]
----->Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-shell-extensions/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main gnome-shell-extension-weather all 0.2-0+20121030~oneiric1 [43.2 kB]
----->Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe libseed-gtk3-0 i386 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 [174 kB]
----->Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe seed i386 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 [6,926 B]
Fetched 245 kB in 16s (14.5 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gnome-js-common.
(Reading database ... 266843 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gnome-js-common (from .../gnome-js-common_0.1.2-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libseed-gtk3-0.
Unpacking libseed-gtk3-0 (from .../libseed-gtk3-0_3.2.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package seed.
Unpacking seed (from .../seed_3.2.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gnome-shell-extension-weather.
----->Unpacking gnome-shell-extension-weather (from .../gnome-shell-extension-weather_0.2-0+20121030~oneiric1_all.deb)<----- ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Setting up gnome-js-common (0.1.2-1) ...
Setting up libseed-gtk3-0 (3.2.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up seed (3.2.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gnome-shell-extension-weather (0.2-0+20121030~oneiric1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
dedanna ~ # apt-get remove gnome-shell-extensions-weather
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
----->Package gnome-shell-extensions-weather is not installed, so not removed (wtf? I had just installed it)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.Does this thing just not exist any more, or ??? It all came from oneirc, wouldn't get it from the new repo. the oneirc ones were already installed.
Keep in mind, I refuse to use sudo, as I believe it to be a huge security risk (especially with canonical). I use full root.
Edit: To confirm it is, indeed, installed, you'll see it here in the list of extensions:
So, what to do? Thanks.