I just use gkrellm.  It has a weather plugin, and all sorts of other
goodies.  Themes too.

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sherman [mailto:dsherman at real-time.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 1:39 PM
> To: TC-LUG
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] wmweather alternative?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 13:57, Lorry wrote:
> > Right now I have wmweather to tell me about the 
> temperature, etc. but I'm
> > wondering if there is a similar app that has a "general 
> description" of the
> > condition, e.g. instead of "Temp: 33 F, Dew: 32 F, Prs: 
> 29.95, Hum: 93%,
> > Wnd: ENE 20" what I really want to know is "33 F and 
> snowing."  Well, the wind
> > speed is nice too.  :)  Is there anything that will tell me 
> when it's snowing,
> > raining, mostly cloudy and that sort of thing?  It doesn't 
> have to have the
> > cute little pictures of snowflakes and smiling sunshines 
> like they have on
> > TV weather reports, just any indication.
> > I know there is an app that displays temperature only (I 
> thought about getting
> > that before since I don't know what to do with dewpoint and 
> pressure info
> > anyway) but I'd really like the snowing/raining type info.
> 
> I'm using Gnome Weather (gweather) 0.05, and it gives me the 
> temp plus a
> small image showing current conditions. I can right-click to get a
> detailed dialog box with a weather map, forecast, and more info on
> current conditions. It docks into the Gnome panel, but I 
> don't know what
> it would do in either Afterstep's or Window Maker's wharf.
> 
> Dave
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