[kde-linux] LCD weather widget not finding noaa stations

[Duncan]

Dale posted on Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:10:42 -0600 as excerpted:

> Maybe one day it will work.  I been using that other app you mentioned
> and it works OK.  I had to change a few things but it is cool.  I just
> wish I could get it to move from the far right corner.  When I try to
> move it, it just bounces right back to the far right corner.  The others
> move fine but not that one.  Oh well.  Beats what I had before.

So yawp is working, but lcd-weather is not?  That's weird.  Not what I'd 
have predicted at all, since I /thought/ the weather-parsing 
infrastructure was in a lib common to both.

Maybe I was wrong?

You mention that it sticks to the far right corner... of what?  A panel, 
or a desktop activity, or ???  FWIW, here, I have (my multiple instances 
of) yawp on the desktop, in a separate activity that contains all them 
and my comic-strip plasmoid.  That way I can spread them out as I wish, 
and switch to my weather and comics activity to view them, without 
cluttering up my mostly clear normal desktop.  Anyway, I have no problems 
getting yawp to go where I want it on the desktop.

I tried yawp in a panel quite some kde versions ago and decided I didn't 
like it there so much.  IIRC it was because in a panel, it would only 
show a limited amount of info, I think due to the space constraints.  But 
that was some time ago and I really don't know how it behaves in a panel 
any more.

But that reminds me... I DO have some issues with the comic-strip 
plasmoid.  It seems I can't set any new comics, only the old ones, as any 
new ones don't update.

I somehow got the impression at some point (IDR how), that certain 
plasmoids use $TMPDIR for storing their update file, then try to RENAME 
(NOT move or copy, RENAME) to the final location.  Since my $TMPDIR is on 
tmpfs (with the user's tmpdir symlinked into it from its default location 
in ~/tmp), that doesn't work so well, as renames across filesystems 
simply doesn't work (while moves or copies and then deletes, would work).

But I would have /thought/ that would have been fixed quite some versions 
ago, and had forgotten about it.

But now I'm wondering if that's the root problem behind both your broken 
LCD-weather and my broken ability to add new comics to comic-strip.

I'm headed in to work a Christmas Eve close, but I have tomorrow off.  
Maybe I'll play around with tmpdir a bit tomorrow, and see if it makes a 
difference.

Reminder:  Backup your plasma-destop-appletsrc file before you do any 
serious playing around with plasma.  It could save you some trouble if 
something goes wrong.

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