{"id":48538,"date":"2025-03-31T06:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48538"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:00:08","slug":"cool-desktop-weather-widget-typhoon-revived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/cool-desktop-weather-widget-typhoon-revived\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cool Desktop Weather Widget “Typhoon” Revived"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Remember ‘Typhoon’, the stylish desktop weather widget? It’s revived and works in all current Ubuntu and other recent Linux Distributions!<\/p>\n

Typhoon is a free open-source application forked from Stormcloud (no long under active development). It displays current weather conditions and weather forecast in next few days on desktop with widget in custom color background.<\/p>\n

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

<\/p>\n

The app uses the free and open-source Open-Meteo<\/a> weather API<\/b> for the weather information.<\/p>\n

In the widget header click on the setting gear icon, then you can type the name of your City, choose temperature and speed unit, select a background color, and your desired opacity, finally click on the check mark.<\/p>\n

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

And, it supports running multiple instance of the weather widget<\/b> on your desktop! Each with different location, different color, unit, or opacity as you set.<\/p>\n

Typhoon was born in 2013, which’s not been updated for years. Just few days ago, the developer revived it. And, the source code is available in this Github page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Besides the features mentioned above, there are new added, including resizing widget<\/b><\/i> through bottom-right arrow and chameleonic background<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n

The app basically works in my test in GNOME (both Wayland & Xorg), KDE Plasma, XFCE, and other desktops. But the Flatpak package so far has few limitations as it runs in an isolated sandbox environment.<\/p>\n