This program displays a nice square iconic button showing the
current weather condition. Clicking the button shows the current
basic weather condition values, such as temperature, humidity, and
wind. Clicking again shows additional information, namely the
barometric pressure, UV, visiblility, and "heat index" or
"wind chill" or "misery index". For anyone not from Houston, Texas,
the old "misery index" is the temperature plus dewpoint. Anything
over 150 is considered "miserable"! I use this for planning
workouts. The default is to use the more modern "heat index".
Specify "index=misery" for the old Houston "misery index".
"wind chill" is used if the temperature is below 70 and wind
is >= 10mph regardless.
"site", is currently "weather" (weather.com) or "wunderground"
(www.wunderground.com). If it fails on the selected one, it tries
the other. The default is "weather".
CONFIGURATION
How to set up:
1) This program fetches the current conditions every 15
minutes (900 seconds) from www.weather.com or
www.wunderground.com.
2) Create a "tkweather" directory in your home directory.
3) You will also need to specify your zipcode either as the
command-line argument or add a "zipcode=yourzip" line in
$HOME/tkweather/tkweather.cfg
Otherwise you get the weather at the author's zipcode!
4) The optional file: $HOME/tkweather/tkweather.cfg takes the
format (defaults shown below): Any line starting with "#" is
ignored as a comment.
geometry=+100+100
zipcode=76087
#BROWSER TO BE INVOKED IF USER PRESSES SHIFT-CLICK ON BUTTON.
browser=mozilla
#URL USED FOR SCRAPING WEATHER DATA.
weatherurl=http://www.w3.weather.com/weather/local/<ZIP>?lswe=<ZIP>&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared
#COMMAND URL TO BE INVOKED IF USER PRESSES SHIFT-CLICK ON BUTTON.
weathercmd=http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=<ZIP> &
#MILLISECONDS TO WAIT BETWEEN QUERIES TO THE WEATHER URL.
checkmsec=900000
#BUTTON RELIEF (CHOICES: flat, groove, raised, ridge, sunken)
relief=ridge
#INDEX: "misery": USE OLD "MISERY INDEX" (HEAT+DEWPOINT),
#OTHERWISE ("heat") USE MODERN "HEAT INDEX" AS REPORTED.
#NOTE: WIND CHILL IS REPORTED IF TEMP. < 70 AND WIND >= 10 MPH
#REGARDLESS OF THIS SETTING!
index=heat
#OVERRIDEDIRECT ARGUMENT 0=MANAGED BY WINDOWMANAGER (DECORATE)
#1=BYPASS WINDOWMANAGER (NO DECORATION). USE 0 IF DOCKING IN
#WINDOWMAKER OR AFTERSTEP.
windowmgr=0
#STARTUP ICON IMAGE (MUST BE IN $ENV{HOME}/tkweather/)
startimage=tkweather.gif
#NORMAL TEXT FOREGROUND COLOR
normalcolor=green
#WARNING COLOR
warningcolor=yellow
#ALERT COLOR
alertcolor=red
#NORMAL BACKGROUND COLOR
bgcolor=black
#SHOW WARNING/ALERT COLOR IN BACKGROUND OF ICON (0=OLD WAY - BGCOLOR)
bgwarn=1
#CONVERT TEMPS AND WINDSPEED TO METRIC IF SET.
metric=0
#DO NOT DISPLAY MESSAGE TO STDERR WHEN FETCHING WEATHER FROM WEB:
silent=0
#DO NOT DUMP DEBUG INFORMATION TO STDERR
debug=0
5) Copy the image "tkweather.gif" to $HOME/tkweather/
6) Copy tkweather.pl to somewhere in your PATH or wherever you
want to be able to run it from. Make sure line 1 points to your
perl interpreter.
7) To make this app appear in your AfterStep/Windowmaker "wharf",
add the following to your config file:
*Wharf Tkwather - MaxSwallow "Tkweather" tkweather.pl &
8) Enjoy!
Module Install Instructions
To install , copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.