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This is what you probably can try:
1 Go to the website http://www.schwarzvogel.de/software/pymetar.html and download the pymetar-sources.
2 Unpack the archive with your archive manager application
3 Now you have a separate folder of the source files in your download folder or where you unpacked the archive
4 Open a terminal and type 'su', then 'enter' and respond with the administartors password.
5 Now that you are logged in in the 'root' terminal, cd to the location where you unpacked the pymetar sources; in my case I typed 'cd /home/one/Downloads/pymetar-0.19'
6 To compile the python module of pymetar just type 'python setup.py install' and complete with enter
7 Now the terminal shows, where the setup script put which files.
8 After all, you log-out of the root terminal with 'exit'
9 Now that you are normal user in the terminal type: 'pymetar EDDL' (complete with 'enter') and you receive the local weather info in short messages
10 Here is the link, to get the weather IDs for other locations: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.php

GOOD LUCK! THANKs to Tobias Klausmann on http://www.schwarzvogel.de

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10916

Again

I also use inxi in terminal for the weather.
inxi is in gslapt.

Thanks for responses.

HINT: Once you have a command that will provide you the information that you want, it really isn't that difficult to show it in the xfce panel, either as text or icons, using the genmon plugin: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- ... mon-plugin

It does require a bit of scripting, but the example in that page is enough to get you started I think.

Check out TeoBigusGeekus' Conky weather scripts over at the CrunchBang forums:

Conky weather+moon scripts

I promise you'll be thorougly impressed.

FYI, I just uploaded packages for xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.4 to the 14.1 repos, which should be working fine.

gapan wrote:FYI, I just uploaded packages for xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.4 to the 14.1 repos, which should be working fine.

Just workig fine. Thanks!

As for weather apps on the desktop: You might look into the Conky related thread in the crunchbang forum. There is a "monster" section about weather apps with all "whistles and bells" and for sure you have all chances to find something nice which works for you