[olug] Need a program for my wife

[Jake Churchill]

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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