25 Aug
2016
25 Aug
'16
1:03 a.m.
On Wednesday 24 August 2016 17:46:46 Pisini, John wrote:
You can add it to the task bar as an applet without
using kontact.
But that STILL does not tell me how to configure it to use my local
airports server at KCKB. Gee folks, does it read minds? I'd think,
given its kde ancestry, that there ought to a an 'rc' file someplace,
maybe even with a gui editor.
Sheesh, am I not a member of this club?
On Aug 24, 2016 5:09 PM, "Gene Heskett"
<gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2016 15:55:46 deloptes wrote:
> > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I thought kweather-trinity wasn't installed, so I checked with
> > > synaptic and it is, its also one of the packages being updated
> > > as I type. But!! It is not available on any of my text based
> > > menu's, nor can the system find it to run it.
> > >
> > > Same situation after the update. I located it, and ran the
> > > server, getting a single newline response. Then I ran the
> > > report, giving it my local airports server, and again only the
> > > help screen.
> > >
> > > I don't use it, have never used since the gkrellm version just
> > > works. Is there a doc someplace on how to configure it?
> >
> > It is a service and best used as applet. It is also integrated
> > (kpart) in kontact (if you have configured weather stations they
> > may be shown in the overview)
> >
> > For me the best use of it is in the autumn or winter where I check
> > the wind chill before I go out as sometimes it makes a big
> > difference.
> >
> > regards
>
> I can hover the mouse over the local airports temp and humidity line
> in the gkrellm panel and get a popup that in that shows me what I
> want to know, profiled to the existing weather, and which tells me
> all that as its seen 18 miles north of me. FWIW, I have never set
> kontact up to do anything for me, so if its interlocked with that,
> that could be one explanation. OTOH, none of those names show up in
> the trinity control center either.
>
> So where is it? Before I run completely out of hair. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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