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

[Dale]

Duncan wrote:
> 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.
>

It is rather odd that one works and the other doesn't.  I'm just glad it
does.  At least I have one that works.

I do have it on the little kicker thingy at the bottom.  It's right next
to my clock in the far right corner.  I can move all the other stuff but
that weather thing just will not move.  I even tried moving the clock to
the right of it and it just pops right back. 

I have mine set up for current and the next day.  That is about as close
to what the weather people can predict anyway.  ;-)  It doesn't take up
to much room and if I click on it, it shows more details and a few more
days.

Maybe one day I will just do a major upgrade and start with a fresh .kde
directory.  It would be the first time I had to do that.  ;-)  My emails
are in .mozilla anyway.  All .kde has is settings. 

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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