jaunty kde 4.2 weather applet loses city upon reboot / relogin
Mark Greenwood
fatgerman at ntlworld.com
Sat Mar 14 01:42:56 UTC 2009
On Friday 13 March 2009 23:09:53 Paul S wrote:
> Trying to use the lcd weather applet and encountering loss of
> configuration every time I restart kde, either by reboot or
> logout/login. When I leave (logout or shutdown), the lcd is showing the
> correct city and data. But, after restart, it shows the word "Loading"
> in the lcd.
>
> I've looked at ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc and see that my city
> is correctly listed, as well as the rest of the stuff.
>
> [Containments][3][Applets][16]
> geometry=1626,6,32,32
> immutability=1
> plugin=weatherstation
> zvalue=0
>
> [Containments][3][Applets][16][Configuration]
> updateWeather=30
> windFormat=0
>
> [Containments][3][Applets][16][Configuration][\x00]
> ion=
>
> [Containments][3][Applets][16][Configuration][<snipped city name>]
> ion=noaa
>
> [Containments][3][Applets][16][Shortcuts]
> global=Meta+W
>
> To try to fix it, I right click and select Settings, then in the popup I
> notice the "Select data source" has changed from my setting of noaa to
> bbc weather, and under data source it shows a blank line above my city
> name. If I click to hi-light my city name and hit ok, it still says
> "loading". I notice it has erased my city from the config file.
>
> Now when I reopen the Settings, my city listing is missing altogether.
> I have to reselect noaa and my city name to get it working again. It's
> crazy.
>
> Anyone have this working correctly or any ideas what to try?
It's working for me, but I use bbc weather - so I guess it isn't loading the data source on startup. bbc weather is probably the default.
Mark
>
> TIA
>
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