{"id":4615,"date":"2015-02-02T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T08:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2015-02-02T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T08:01:27","slug":"install-weather-conky-widget-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/install-weather-conky-widget-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Flair Weather Conky Widget on Your Ubuntu Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weather<\/a><\/p>\n

Flair Weather is a nice clean conky widget for Linux that shows time, date, and weather information on your desktop.<\/p>\n

The conky theme contains both white and black version:<\/p>\n

\"Flair<\/a>

Flair Weather Conky White<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Flair<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to speedracker, Kelly Kretchek, and zagortenay333, you can install this theme on your desktop by below steps.<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Install curl and Conky Manager, a graphical tool to manage conky themes.<\/p>\n

Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install it from PPA:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:teejee2008\/ppa\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install conky-manager curl<\/pre>\n
If you don’t want to add PPA, grab the .deb installer directly from the launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>\n
2.<\/b> Download Flair Weather Conky from the right pane of deviantart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n
3.<\/b> Open the downloaded package via Archive Manager and extract it to your user Home folder, so you’ll see the result folder Flair_Weather<\/b> under user’s Home -> .conky<\/b> (press Ctrl+H to see hidden folders)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\"Conky<\/a><\/p>\n
4.<\/b> Start\/restart Conky Manager. You should be able to start Flair Weather White or Black theme from the list.<\/p>\n
5.<\/b> Now let’s setup your weather location. Since the theme uses Yahoo! Weather, go to weather.yahoo.com<\/a>, search your city (and select from drop-down prompts), finally write down the id in the url.<\/p>\n
\"Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n
6.<\/b> Set the weather location for your city by doing below steps:<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. In conky manager, highlight the Flair Weather widget.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the pencil<\/b> icon to edit the theme file in text editor.<\/li>\n
  3. Replace the location id.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \"Setup<\/a><\/p>\n
    Finally configure the widget size, location, transparency, time format, auto-start, etc in the widget settings and app preferences window.<\/p>\n
    \"conky-settings\"<\/a><\/p>\n
    All done. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Flair Weather is a nice clean conky widget for Linux that shows time, date, and weather information on your desktop. The conky theme contains both white and black version: Thanks to speedracker, Kelly Kretchek, and zagortenay333, you can install this theme on your desktop by below steps. 1. Install curl and Conky Manager, a graphical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42,1113],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-conky","tag-weather-widget"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}