xfce weather applet

[Joep L. Blom]

On 26-11-11 08:38, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> On 26-11-11 07:51, Art Edwards wrote:
>> I get no data displayed on the panel and the applet seems unable to find
>> my location. My guess is that this applet uses an unusual port. Is there
>> any way to change the port?
>>
>> Art Edwards
>>
> Art,
> I second that. I did the same and there is apparently something not quit
> in order with it.
> And if I may ask another question: I am in Europe ( the Netherlands) and
> we use the Euro. I have the Euro sign on my keyboard (recognized as
> international layout) but in gnome there was a tool where you could
> assign a meta-key to use the third level keys but I couldn't find in in
> xfce. I tried changing /etc/default/console-setup by setting:
> XKBOPTIONS="compose:rwin" as adviced in "Ubuntu Documentation >
> Community Documentation > ComposeKey", but it din't work.
> I tried to change the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by adding Option
> "XkbOptions" "lv3:menu_switch,compose:menu" as adviced in another
> document but no luck.
> Maybe somebody can give the direction how to solve this problem as it is
> an xfce problem. In the standard gnome I have no problems.
> Joep
>
>
Answering my own question I solved it by adding the xfapplet 
(xfc4-xfapplet-plugin). This plugin gives the possibility to add 
Gnome-applets to a panel. The "Keyboard Accessibility Status"-applet is 
the one that let you set the keyboard Preferences. Its Icon is a 
wheelchair and it is missing from the xfce-settings menu as the 
Accessibility menu item in xfce4-settings doesn't have this possibility.
I consider this a bug.
It also solves the weather-applet problem as the Gnome weather-applet 
works OK.
Joep