XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

[Bill Davidsen]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 01:00 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I think I have the extra apps loaded for xfce, but the weather app searching for something near Schenectady NY just says "Searching" and does nothing visible. FC17 found a station on Libarty St, three blocks from me, which updates frequently. What did I forget to install?
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>> I noticed that fc17 had libgweather installed, so I added it in case the dependency was missed. No change. So either the applet is broken or they are using a much smaller list, or it's broken. Before I submit a bug, I'll ask here if I'm just doing it wrong.
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> I don't often use xfce, but you got me curious.
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> Are you talking about the xfce4-weather-plugin?  I installed that in both F17 and F18 and added it to the panel.  In both cases, it automatically found what it thought was my location and gave me weather.
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> However, in both cases if I try to change the location it goes to "searching..." no matter what I enter and never returns anything....even if I use a very common city such as New York.....
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That's the issue on fc18, on 17 it found weather only a few blocks away. The 
search algorithm seems troubled. I think the location is taken from the city 
where your ISP does business, fc18 picked a location not nearby, horizontally or 
vertically. Weather in the hills miles away is not much like mine. :-(

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