[olug] Need a program for my wife

Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T dundeemt at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 15:21:34 UTC 2006


+1 ForecastFox

On 7/20/06, Jake Churchill <reynacho at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I read somewhere that with the new XGL desktop, you can set
> active destop items
>
> daryl rue wrote:
> > Why not just have her configure google personalized home to show the
> > weather?
> >
> > Daryl
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Noel
> > Leistad
> > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:48 PM
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group
> > Subject: Re: [olug] Need a program for my wife
> >
> > weather bug again!!
> >
> > Fully customizable for "balloon-help" forecast, pick your pieces of info
> > from the options configure screen. Can set days to view. Even add
> > multiple profiles and have them auto rotate. Track home and work for
> > commuter, home and vacation home for the fortunate...
> >
> > Once upon a time there was a for which nearly quadrupled the radar
> > image, thought that was pretty cool, but not sure if it's still updated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Eric Lusk wrote:
> >
> >> Forecastfox works quite well.  Weather alerts, current
> >> temp, etc.  And not as much of a memory hog as so many
> >> other programs...
> >>
> >> --- Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I know it worked with Suse 9.3 and Gnome. It's also
> >>> available with
> >>> Ubuntu. Didn't try to get it working with KDE since
> >>> I'm not a KDE
> >>> person.
> >>>
> >>> Firefox has a forecast fox extension or plugin. I
> >>> don't know the status
> >>> of that since FF 1.5. I used it on 1.2. Craig Wolf
> >>> might be able to tell
> >>> us more about that since he's the one that clued me
> >>> into it in the first
> >>> place.
> >>>
> >>> Son
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 20:43 -0500, Mike Peterson
> >>> Charles wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> There is a weather report applet for Gnome and one
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> of the latest Linux
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> magazines in the last few months installed it on
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> KDE.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> It comes standard on Simply Mepis 6 RC3 on KDE and
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora on
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Gnome.
> >>>> What Desktop are you running with SUSE (KDE or
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> GNOME)?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Bill
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Brush
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:34 PM
> >>>> To: olug at olug.org
> >>>> Subject: [olug] Need a program for my wife
> >>>>
> >>>> I've finally gotten my wife to switch over to
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Linux (whoody who!) by
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> giving her a Suse 10.1 desktop complete with XGL
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> and compiz.  But now
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> she wants Weatherbug, or something like it.  So is
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> there anything out
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> there for Linux that will give you cute little
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> weather updates?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Bill
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