Having a difficult time displaying weather with Conky
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:22 pm
I installed Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon last week to get my first feel for Linux. To familizrize myself with the terminal, the directory, and the customizability of Linux, I decided to get into Conky as a nice little challenge. I'm starting to get a pretty good grasp of Conky, first followed a tutorial to install Conky Lua (ex. http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/139024-1.jpg), then I began playing around with the .conkyrc, altering displayed text, positioning, and size. It would seem that I'm well on my well to wrapping my brain around this thing...
However, no matter how I try, I can't for the life of me get Conky to display any weather information. I've followed several tutorials regarding weather with Conky (the weather section of http://www.noobslab.com/2012/06/install ... linux.html), (http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... r-in-conky), (http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... eathercom/). So far, no dice. I can get everything but weather to display on my desktop. Ideally I'd like it to display weather info in this sort of fashion: http://i.imgur.com/p5yPy.jpg
Does anyone have a more comprehensive tutorial in mind, or have any idea what I could be doing wrong? I'd be happy to share any terminal or script information you need to get weather up and running on Conky. Thanks.
However, no matter how I try, I can't for the life of me get Conky to display any weather information. I've followed several tutorials regarding weather with Conky (the weather section of http://www.noobslab.com/2012/06/install ... linux.html), (http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... r-in-conky), (http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... eathercom/). So far, no dice. I can get everything but weather to display on my desktop. Ideally I'd like it to display weather info in this sort of fashion: http://i.imgur.com/p5yPy.jpg
Does anyone have a more comprehensive tutorial in mind, or have any idea what I could be doing wrong? I'd be happy to share any terminal or script information you need to get weather up and running on Conky. Thanks.