Hints for wmweather+ (blatantly copied from the Hints for WMPPP ;) Generic -------------------------------------------------------------- wmweather+ supports various commandline options, 'wmweather+ -h' prints help about them. Actually, any unrecognized option will print the same help. WindowMaker -------------------------------------------------------------- WindowMaker users simply drag and drop the wmweather+ dock.app on the WindowMaker Dock (preferred) or the Clip. Now press the rightmouse button on wmweather+'s outer edges and select "Settings..." from the popup menu that appears. Enable the 'Start when WindowMaker is started' option, then click on the 'OK' button in the Docked Applications Panel. Afterstep -------------------------------------------------------------- Afterstep users put something like this in their .steprc "Wharf wmweather+ - MaxSwallow "wmweather+" wmweather+ &" Other WindowManagers -------------------------------------------------------------- For other windowmanagers, wmweather+ runs nicely as a 64x64 pixel shaped icon on your desktop. BTW, FVWM can swallow it too, so we've heard ;-) Dragging wmweather+ -------------------------------------------------------------- Be sure to drag wmweather+ on it's outer edges, wmweather+ is a bit picky due to the large gfx pixmap it keeps ;-) Network Usage -------------------------------------------------------------- wmweather+ is really rather useless without network access, since it has to download everything it wants to display... Command Line -------------------------------------------------------------- Remember to quote your arguments properly. For example, this command: wmweather+ -s KORD -location 48N 78W Will be interpreted as passing the value "48N" to the "-location" option. wmweather+ will then complain that the location is badly formed. Instead, try quoting any options containing spaces like this: wmweather+ -s KORD -location "48N 78W" Config File -------------------------------------------------------------- You may have noticed wmweather+ has an insane number of command line options. You may also have noticed the comment in the manpage along the lines of "The configuration file is simply one option (with value if necessary) per line, leading dashes optional. Empty lines and lines beginning with the '#' character are ignored." This means just what it says: your configuration file should contain your command line options, with one option per line. See the file example.conf for a sample configuration file. Font Size -------------------------------------------------------------- If you think the fonts are too small, you are welcome to redesign the display and the font. Please keep in mind the following constraints: * The window size is limited to 64x64. Taking off the border, that means you get about 54x54 pixels to work with. * I require the app to display at least the station ID, the effective date and time of the observarion/forecast, the weather graphic, the temperature (and high and low for forecasts), the relative humidity, and the wind speed+direction. At least one extra line is needed for pressure/heat index/wind chill/precip amount as appropriate.