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[SOLVED]Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 15th, '20, 09:50
by nigelc
Hi,
On the Mate desktop the weather applet has gone away. If I click on the clock applet it shows the weather with a tick on it. However it does not work.
Thanks in advance.

Nigel

Re: Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 15th, '20, 16:22
by doktor5000
Are you referring to the standalone weather applet, or the weather that is shown within the default clock applet ?

Can you please post the output as regular user of
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gsettings set org.mate.panel


For the standalone weather applet, please keep in mind that the applet will only show a "-" sign if no current location is set or if data could not be updated.
From what I can see the weather data provider seems to be unreachable:
Jun 15 10:04:16 Mageia7VM mateweather-app[2298]: Failed to get IWIN forecast data: 404 Not Found


Apart from that, the weather applet seems to have issues sometimes: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/603

Re: Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 16th, '20, 03:25
by nigelc
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gsettings set org.mate.panel


This referring to the applet that comes with the clock. On the top mate panel.

Re: Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 16th, '20, 17:08
by doktor5000
Sorry, copy&paste issue, should be
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gsettings list-recursively org.mate.panel

FWIW, I tried both on a fresh MATE installation, and neither one of them showed weather data.
The standalone one failed with the error message already posted, and the one integrated with the clock did not show any weather data after adding my location, even after several refreshes.

Re: Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 17th, '20, 07:32
by nigelc
This is what this says:

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   gsettings list-recursively org.mate.panel
org.mate.panel enable-sni-support true
org.mate.panel history-mate-run @as []
org.mate.panel enable-autocompletion true
org.mate.panel disabled-applets @as []
org.mate.panel enable-program-list true
org.mate.panel tooltips-enabled true
org.mate.panel highlight-launchers-on-mouseover true
org.mate.panel history-max-size-mate-run uint32 10
org.mate.panel default-layout 'mageia'
org.mate.panel object-id-list ['menu-bar', 'mcc', 'terminal', 'web-browser', 'notification-area', 'clock', 'window-list', 'workspace-switcher', 'show-desktop', 'object-1', 'object-2']
org.mate.panel show-program-list false
org.mate.panel disable-force-quit false
org.mate.panel drawer-autoclose true
org.mate.panel enable-animations true
org.mate.panel history-reverse-mate-run false
org.mate.panel confirm-panel-remove true
org.mate.panel locked-down false
org.mate.panel toplevel-id-list ['top', 'bottom']
[nigel@localhost Desktop]$



Well it used to work.:)
cheers.

Re: Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 17th, '20, 17:09
by doktor5000
Can't really help much further. Although the guys over at Mint all have the same issue: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 6&t=320757
Seems that the weather service they're using for the applets has changed API and they're working on a server outage, from what I understood.
You can follow upstream bugreport: https://github.com/mate-desktop/libmate ... /issues/80

Re: Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 24th, '20, 07:29
by nigelc
Well now it's come back.
The applet is working fine and I have done nothing.
The temp in Sydney is 17 ° C
Cheers.

Re: Weather applet has gone away

PostPosted: Jun 24th, '20, 08:40
by isadora
Would you please mark this topic [SOLVED]?
You can do so by editing the title/subject of the first message in the topic.
Place [SOLVED] in front of subject/title.

Thanks ahead. :)