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Add YOUR city to the Gnome weather app [Solved]
(lemmy.eco.br)
cross-posted from: !linux@lemmy.eco.br | https://lemmy.eco.br/post/1969330
I've been using Gnome for about 10 months and it always bothered me that my city (with more than a million inhabitants) was not found in the Weather program.
I looked for solutions several times and never found them, until I found this thread yesterday. That the user Julian made a script that solves this problem. you just have to run and enter the name of your city and then confirm.
script
#!/bin/bash
if [[ ! -z "$(which gnome-weather)" ]]; then
system=1
fi
if [[ ! -z "$(flatpak list | grep org.gnome.Weather)" ]]; then
flatpak=1
fi
if [[ ! $system == 1 && ! $flatpak == 1 ]]; then
echo "GNOME Weather isn't installed"
exit
fi
if [[ ! -z "$*" ]]; then
query="$*"
else
read -p "Type the name of the location you want to add to GNOME Weather: " query
fi
query="$(echo $query | sed 's/ /+/g')"
request=$(curl "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=$query&format=json&limit=1" -s)
if [[ $request == "[]" ]]; then
echo "No locations found, consider removing some search terms"
exit
fi
read -p "If this is not the location you wanted, consider adding search terms
Are you sure you want to add $(echo $request | sed 's/.*"display_name":"//' | sed 's/".*//')? [y/n] : " answer
if [[ ! $answer == "y" ]]; then
echo "Not adding location"
exit
else
echo "Adding location"
fi
id=$(echo $request | sed 's/.*"place_id"://' | sed 's/,.*//')
name=$(curl "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=$id&format=json" -s | sed 's/.*"name": "//' | sed 's/".*//')
lat=$(echo $request | sed 's/.*"lat":"//' | sed 's/".*//')
lat=$(echo "$lat / (180 / 3.141592654)" | bc -l)
lon=$(echo $request | sed 's/.*"lon":"//' | sed 's/".*//')
lon=$(echo "$lon / (180 / 3.141592654)" | bc -l)
if [[ $system == 1 ]]; then
locations=$(gsettings get org.gnome.Weather locations)
fi
if [[ $flatpak == 1 ]]; then
locations=$(flatpak run --command=gsettings org.gnome.Weather get org.gnome.Weather locations)
fi
location="<(uint32 2, <('$name', '', false, [($lat, $lon)], @a(dd) [])>)>"
if [[ $system == 1 ]]; then
if [[ ! $(gsettings get org.gnome.Weather locations) == "@av []" ]]; then
gsettings set org.gnome.Weather locations "$(echo $locations | sed "s|>]|>, $location]|")"
else
gsettings set org.gnome.Weather locations "[$location]"
fi
fi
if [[ $flatpak == 1 ]]; then
if [[ ! $(flatpak run --command=gsettings org.gnome.Weather get org.gnome.Weather locations) == "@av []" ]]; then
flatpak run --command=gsettings org.gnome.Weather set org.gnome.Weather locations "$(echo $locations | sed "s|>]|>, $location]|")"
else
flatpak run --command=gsettings org.gnome.Weather set org.gnome.Weather locations "[$location]"
fi
fi
It occurred to me that some people might not know how to run scripts, so here's a brief tutorial:
How to run scripts in Linux
- Save the script to a text file and save with the
.sh
extension - Provide execute permission:
chmod u+x script.sh
- run the script by double clicking or
./script.sh
As a gnome user and huge Linux enthusiast, this should not have to exist. Gnome weather is just badly designed
Yeah, it's a terrible thing that you have to do this to get your city into the weather app, but I simply love the fact that you can do that, whereas on some proprietary system, you might wait months for the fix.
My happiness is ruined :(
KDE is very receptive to community help! I can only think of one specific example in KDE history where a developer dragged their feet in the mud about a change the community wanted/submitted pull requests for, and thats the vertical HTML indicator bar in kmail.
Gnome on the other hand...