Weather Plug-in Causes Panel to Crash

[Philip Dean]

Thanks!!

I just upgraded to 4.0.4 this past weekend from the beta2. 
 (yeah I know I am slow) I had this problem as well.  I 
hadn't gone to look for the problem yet and it looks like 
now I won't have to.

Philip

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:50:30 -0500
  Peter Hyman <pete4abw at comcast.net> wrote:
>My xfce4 version 4.04.
>
>Trying to add the weather 0.30 goodie to the panel causes 
>a panel crash,
>however, it can be manually fixed. Here is what I did. Do 
>compile and
>install the source, though, since the module does work 
>:)!
>
>1) go to xoap.weather.com and do a search for your town. 
>Retrieve the 8
>letter alpha numeric code that displays in the link. 
>Format is AAAA####
>2) Open xfce4rc and add the following lines in the 
>relative location you
>would like it to appear in the panel. 
>3) Add the following between any
></Group> and
><Group> lines
>
>    <Group>
>      <Control id="-1" filename="libweather.so">
>        <weather celsius="0" tooltip="0" 
>loc_code="USNJ0105">
>          <label>7</label>
>          <label>1</label>
>          <label>0</label>
>        </weather>
>      </Control>
>    </Group>
>4) Restart xfce4
>
>Note, USNJ0105 is my local location. celsius="0" means I 
>want to see
>Fahrenheit. Not sure what the labels stand for for, but 
>you will notice
>on the display, you will see current temperature, wind 
>chill
>temperature, and humidity. I am sure this is documented 
>somewhere in the
>source code.
>
>NOTE: Changing properties will cause a crash, although 
>left-clicking the
>module will allow the forecast to be displayed.
>
>Good luck.
>-- 
>Peter Hyman
>
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