[olug] Replacing the Weather Bug

Noel Leistad noel at metc.net
Tue Aug 16 13:11:39 UTC 2005


It's not a separate app, but I'm a HUGE fan of ForcastFox w/i Firefox.
Profiles for each area you want to watch, radar thumbnail, verbose tool 
tip w/ as much info as you want to add.

Newest version is supposed to ROTATE profiles so you can watch more than 
one area.


Dave Thacker wrote:
>>On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 23:58 -0500, Dave Thacker wrote:
>>
>>>The "kitchen computer" has officially been replaced, and is now running
>>>SuSE 9.3 running KDE.  Outside of the grumbling about having to login,
>>>I've had few complaints.  I do see one heading down the road, though.
>>>My wife runs the "weather bug" utility on her PC at work, and we used to
>>>run it on the former kitchen computer.  I need something that will pull
>>>weather data from NWS in Omaha, and display it prettily on the system
>>>tray.  I've seen a weather component in Kontact, but the data it shows is
>>>pretty limited. Anybody seen a "weather bug" replacement for linux?
>>>
>>>Dave Thacker
>>>_______________________________________________


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