Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps

From	Greg Marks <gtmarks@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps
Date	2021-05-28 21:20 +0200
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> > I have three small questions about the MATE application Weather Report,
> > version 1.20.3, the MATE panel application for monitoring local weather
> > conditions.
> > 
> > 1. Is there a way to set the default size of the Weather Report window?
> > The preset default seems to be 58 characters, which is slightly smaller
> > than the length of the lines in the Forecast tab.
> > 
> > 2. Is there a package containing all icons for Weather Report?
> > For some conditions, such as "broken clouds," no icon is displayed in
> > the panel.  Various weather icons seem to be installed in subdirectories
> > of /usr/share/icons/mate, but some conditions appear not to be included
> > among the icons.
> > 
> > 3. In the preferences, "enable radar map" never seems to show anything
> > under the Radar Map tab.  The manual says that Weather Report downloads
> > radar maps from www.weather.com, which seems to be a URL for The Weather
> > Channel, and one must do a bit of searching on that site to find radar
> > maps.  Can one fix this by selecting "Use custom address for radar map"
> > in preferences, and if so, what URL should one enter for U.S. radar maps?
>
> Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with
> a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/.

Setting "Use custom address for radar map" to https://www.livewxradar.com
does not solve the problem; still nothing shows up in the Radar Map tab
of Weather Report.

Best regards,
Greg Marks

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Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps Greg Marks <gtmarks@gmail.com> - 2021-05-28 21:20 +0200
  Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-05-28 22:00 +0200
  Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2021-05-28 22:20 +0200

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