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musher0 · Posted: Thu 28 Jul 2016, 23:57 Post subject:

Hi David.

In terminal, type

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1156 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day/jour musher0,

I installed your latest weather pet in a Full TahrPup-5.8.4. There was an earlier version already installed which I just left.

I ran meteo h in this Pup's terminal and first had a blue window of problems, followed quickly by a black background window that looked like the expected help window. Screenshots attached.

With my wrrt.EN.lst symlink from sda5 in place, I ran the weather program and there was no problem, apart from the initial message about my terminal configuration which required an <Enter> press..

David S.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2016, 22:56 Post subject:

Hi David.

I installed 666philb's TahrPup-6.0.5 on this machine and guess what? I'm getting the
same warning you're getting before the litlle st terminal shows the weather report!!!
I think we better report this quirk to phil.

I also got the same error messages as you got when using the main urxvt terminal.
Which means the urxvt the TahrPup is using does not have the full complement of
perl libraries that it needs.

I double-checked and the $TERM variable is correctly set. So... Again, these
weirdnesses should be reported to phil in the TahrPup 605 thread.

In practice, if we just have to press the Enter key an extra time to get the report,
it's not so bad, is it?

For a minute there, you had me worried: I thought I had done something serious and
that the entire heavens were going to open and pour their contents on my head.
(Sorry for the bad humor!) Twisted Evil

But as it turns out, it's not my script, it's some
quirk in the TahrPup.

I'm glad you found a way to get your personalized menu working, BTW.

BFN.

Pelo · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2016, 00:15 Post subject: For Ice-cream POS, or tan creams

Musher0, tu l'as mis en categorie 'business' pour les marchands de glaces, ou de crèmes à bronzer ?
T'as vu, en Business class, ya que moi qui répond, mais on a de la visite.

musher0 · Posted: Sat 13 Aug 2016, 20:28 Post subject:

Hello all.

Please find attached a version 3.8b.

I only added the capacity to change the colors of the main title and underscores
from dark to light, and a call to the "GTK chtheme" utility if you find it necessary.

I kept it very simple because I didn't want to transform this weather script into an
art gallery or a fashion runway. There are only two color sets: bisque and snow for
dark GTK themes OR SaddleBrown and orange for light GTK themes. Of course
with some GTK themes, either color scheme will be fine.

I tested those colors a bit and they seem to fit in and maintain readability with
pretty much any theme. The color change can be controlled directly from the menu.
(Please see screen captures.)

It's sort of an on and off switch. From a terminal, simply type:

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1469 Location: Ukraine

Dear musher0,

Looks very good and, since I use a light theme, it works nicely. Thanks. Smile

With kind regards,
vovchik

musher0 · Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2016, 14:26 Post subject:

Hi, vovchik.

Thanks for the thanks! Smile

BFN.

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1156 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day musher0,

Including your world-weather in most of my Pups (both Full & Frugal), I have had a strange response from just one version of TahrPup-6.0.2 where the terminal window that opens to display the weather report is bigger than the display.

All other Pups are "normal" where the terminal window takes up more than half the display but does not go 'off the edge' (see attached screenshots).

In every Pup, I still have to press <Enter> as I first get the message about the terminal set-up not being completely correct.

The over-size terminal window with over-size font has a red 'X' top left (see screenshot) but I don't know which program this is, so don't know if I can fix this problem with a config edit for this one terminal package (e.g. reduce the font size).

The over-size terminal appears as soon as I choose a location from the menu and get that terminal 'error' message - so it is not just too big when displaying the weather report itself.

With the demise of the weather-forecast widgets due to changes by yahoo and accuweather Crying or Very sad

, your world-weather package is very useful as a desktop-clickable, stand-alone detailed weather report/forecast.

So I'm hoping there is a simple fix and explanation for this one-off behaviour.

If you need more information about this oddity, please ask.

Thanks,
David S.

mfb · Joined: 22 Mar 2016 Posts: 60

davids45,

At TahrPup-6.0.2 > Menu > Utility you may find “Urxvt Terminal Control (see Urxvt screen shot)" where you can make type size and other changes.

If “Urxvt Terminal Control” is not found in TahrPup (or another pup) it may be downloaded from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=97337

If (as per the Output screen shot) all you want is your Chatswood, Australia weather forecast with a plain (i.e. less coloured) view and the second column titled “Noon” instead of “Afternoon” then merely open your Urxvt full screen and:

to show the forecast in metric units type (or copy and paste)

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1156 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day mfb,

Thanks for your reply to my query.

I'm interstate visiting grandchildren but when back in Sydney next week, I will try your suggestion to fix the problem with that Tahrpup on my desktop computer.

David S.

greengeek · Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2016, 02:26 Post subject:

OMG - fantastic musher! I really didn't expect it to work for my location (Auckland, NZ) but it did! And in colour! (although the colour doesn't show too well in my screenie) Haha, very clever. Only complaint is it thinks New Zealand is part of Asia - we are actually part of "Oceania". Nowhere near Asia. Small detail.

I will let you know if it gets the weather wrong and I get wet...
Smile

musher0 · Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2016, 02:35 Post subject:

Hi guys.

Sorry for clocking in late, but this utility is not working anymore for me...

A "cobbler's son" tale perhaps, or maybe the webmaster decided to put my
url on the black list for testing his utility too frequently.

I have to see what's wrong up here before I can provide any insight on
the problems you are experiencing at this time.

BFN.

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1156 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day,

Thanks mfb for your post about my too-big problem but it was not the fix I needed.

I found the problem of the oversized terminal window with world weather was being caused by me (as usual Rolling Eyes

) - I had two versions of world-weather loaded in this Frugal Tahrpup Embarassed

.

One (the first I had loaded in this Pup) was running from symlinks to my data partition.

The other I had added recently to my 'all programs' sfs that I boot with all my Frugals.

So when I changed to the updated sfs for this tahrpup frugal, there were two copies in the system Shocked

.

When I deleted the symlink version and ran just the sfs version, the weather display returned to normal (compare today's screenshot with earlier post).

David S.

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1156 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day,

Has any one been able to run this program in a recent Slacko Pup?

I get the normal large black terminal window asking to hit <Enter> but when I do, then it comes up with a short line of text & caret marks and stops (screenshot).

Not seeing this in non-Slacko Pups.

David S.

musher0 · Posted: Sun 25 Mar 2018, 04:59 Post subject:

Hi davids45.

The answer is temporarily: Nope.

Actually, the people at wttr.in have changed things at their end, so I am not sure
the script I produced a while back works anymore. I have to check, but I am short
on time ATM.

The default call from browser still works, though: http://wttr.in/YourCity, e.g.
http://wttr.in/Gatineau

BFN.