![]() Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about Microsoft Windows for many years and have hundreds of Windows 10 help articles for your perusal and edification. It consumes very few resources, so you shouldn’t even be aware it’s running. The only caveat is that WeatherBug needs to be running for the icon to appear and have the correct temperature, so I suggest you just minimize it and ignore it. That’ll change as the temperature changes. A click to change it to “On” and *poof* here’s what shows up on the Taskbar: You can see that by default I have WeatherBug off, which is why it isn’t showing up. ![]() Click or tap on that and you’ll get a list, which will now include WeatherBug: the future forecast as well shows nothing but n/a for everyday in the week. the time still shows up as being accurate and there. The software displays current weather and the weather forecast via system tray indicator applet and desktop widget. for the last week or so my-weather-indcator has shown nothing but n/a for the weather. It’s written in Python 3 and works on Plasma, GNOME, MATE, Xfce, etc. ![]() You might need to scroll down a bit, but you’re searching for the link “ Select which icons appear on the taskbar“. My Weather Indicator is an application especially designed for Ubuntu. You’ll see a window with a lot of options and settings, reasonably enough: Lots you can fiddle with, but focus! Focus! Click or tap on “ Taskbar settings” to proceed. Right click on the Taskbar along the bottom of your window: Why? Because you probably have icons disabled by default as I do, to avoid icon overload! Easy to fix, though. The program wants to put a live icon on your Taskbar too, but probably you won’t see it. Install and run the program and here’s what you’ll see. Net Framework Client 4.0 (which you probably already have if you’re keeping your computer updated with Windows releases) and it also automatically launches each time you start up your computer. Install it normally, noting that it requires. A few moments later, you’ll see this prompt for it to install on your PC computer: A click on /appdownload/ and you’ll see, it’s pretty obvious how to proceed:Ĭlick or tap on the green “ Get the WeatherBug App” and it’s a fast download. While there are plenty of weather apps in the Microsoft Store, I trust Weatherbug more than some random programmer who wants me to run their program 24×7 on my PC. Yes, Weather has a tiny “sun” icon on the Taskbar, but that’s the app icon, not an indication of weather, and clearly there’s no temperature information.Įnter . my-weather-indicator This only works if the executable is in PATH. ![]() Which doesn’t help us get that weather onto the Taskbar. Easy, fun, and a single click launches the Weather app itself. You can see that it’s currently 79F, with a forecast low of 56F and tomorrow’s more of the same, while Wednesday is going to wkr up to 89F. Here’s an updated tutorial on how to install it and get it working on your PC: Show Temperature On Your Windows PC Taskbar.įirst off, here’s the MS Weather display in my Start Menu. The application comes with many features, including weather forecast, a cool forecast map and even desktop widgets. Instead, check out WeatherEye from The Weather Channel. My Weather Indicator is an Ubuntu AppIndicator which displays the current weather in the top panel. Stations are put through strict quality controls and observations are updated. Now, typing wttr in the terminal and pressing Enter should execute your custom command.UPDATE: Weatherbug is not Win10 compatible at this point. Over 250,000 Personal Weather Stations (PWSs) that are part of Weather Undergrounds ever-expanding PWS network. Save and close ~/.bashrc and run the command below to source the new file. Go to My Profile > My Weather Stations > Click the button ‘Add new PWS’ > Choose 'WeatherFlow' and finish setting up your PWS on the Weather Underground website. Go to the end and paste in alias wttr='curl wttr.in/CITY_NAME?YOUR_PARAMS' To do so, open ~/.bashrc with your favorite editor (that’s vim, terminal wizard). If you found some settings you enjoy and you find yourself using them frequently, you might want to add an alias. You can specify location and parameters like so: curl wttr.in/london?m Open up a terminal and install Curl in Ubuntu with this command: sudo apt install curl You can specify location (by default the app tries to detect your current location) and a few other parameters (eg. If you really live in the terminal, this is the weather app for you.
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