Weather Applet for Cinnamon and Xfce

[christosangelopoulos]

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/weathe ... /tree/main

This is another bash script that serves as a weather applet for Linux Mint OS.
It will detect the Desktop Environment (Cinnamon or Xfce), and will show the weather in the panel.



It will work with the CommandRunner applet (in the case of Cinnamon DE) or Generic Monitor applet(XFCE).
Hovering over the panel applet will show a tooltip with the following info:

• Last update time

• Current conditions

• Temperature

• Wind direction and speed

• View range

• Precipitation (rainfall) in mm

Clicking on the applet will also give weather forecast for the 2 following days.



DEPENDENCIES
In order to work, this script depends on the powerful command cURL.
The source of the data that are presented:
http://wttr.in/
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
The presentation of the forecast is done with the dialog command yad.
To install these dependencies, open a terminal and type:

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sudo apt install curl yad

INSTRUCTIONS

• Change Directory to forecast_xfce_cinnamon

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cd forecast_xfce_cinnamon

IMPORTANT: Enter your current location
In order for the script to function , you must insert your location in line 7 of the forecast_xfce_cinnamon.sh script.
you can do it with this command in the terminal:

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sed -i '7i curl wttr.in/city'sname?FQT' Forecast.sh

For example, if the location was Athens,Greece the command would be :

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sed -i '7i curl wttr.in/Athens,Greece?FQT' Forecast.sh

You can find more info on setting the location, and on how this command works, by executing this command in the terminal:

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curl wttr.in/:help

• Make Forecast.sh executable with the following command in terminal:

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chmod +x Forecast.sh 

For Cinnamon DE:


Make sure you download the CommandRunner Applet in cinnamon panel:

• Right click on the panel you want to present the network monitor

• Select Applets

• Select Download tab, select CommandRunner and download it

• Back on the Manage tab, press the CommandRunner Configure button.

• In the Command field, enter :
  /home/user'sname/path-to-directory/forecast_xfce_cinnamon/Forecast.sh

• In the Run Interval field, put: 1800 seconds (refreshing every 30 minutes in my opinion is good enough)

• Hit Apply

• You are good to go.

For Xfce DE:

• Make sure you add the Generic Monitor Applet in the panel:

• Right click on the panel you want to add the network monitor

• Select Panel

• Select +Add New Items tab, select Generic Monitor and press Add.

• Right-click on the Generic Monitor Applet that has appeared on the panel, select Properties.

• In the Command field, enter : /home/user'sname/path-to-directory/forecast_xfce_cinnamon/Forecast.sh

• Untick the Label box

• In the Period(s) field, put: 1800 seconds (refreshing every 30 minutes in my opinion is good enough)

• Close the Properties tab

• You are good to go.

I would love to have your feedback.