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This is a list of frequently asked questions about GNOME Weather. For further information and updates, please visit the GNOME Weather homepage. If your question is still unresolved, you can contact the author.
This is due to the blocking nature of certain network operations (see also the section called Blocking Input/Output) and due to the way the panel currently works.
This is probably because the Locations file was not installed in the proper place. This is usually because GNOME Weather and GNOME were not configured in the same way. The file containing the locations must be installed in the gweather subdirectory, under the gnome data directory. You can find out the latter with the gnome-config --datadir command.
If you have compiled gnome-applets yourself, make sure that you have used configure --prefix=`gnome-config --prefix` --sysconfdir=`gnome-config --sysconfdir`. Binary RPMs assume a that the prefix and sysconfdir are /usr and /etc, respectively. If you have compiled GNOME yourself with different options, you need to download and compile gnome-applets yourself.
This will happen if GNOME Weather cannot access the NWS server for any reason. This may be because your network connection is down, or the NWS server is down, or maybe the NWS server does not currently have any information about your location.
If you have enabled detailed forecasts (see the section called Detailed Forecast in Chapter 3), then it is possible that one may not be available for your location. In this case, try disabling detailed forecasts.
Another possible reason is that the IWIN server is down and GNOME Weather cannot retrieve forecast information. The problem should go away as soon as the IWIN server is up again.
The most common reason is that the webserver containing the radar image is down. You may also want to use the location editor (see the section called Locations Editor in Chapter 3) to make sure that the radar image URL for your location is valid.
Also, if the image is in an uncommon format, GNOME Weather may not be able to display it. Images are displayed using the GNOME libraries, which supports practically all available formats, so this problem should be very rare.