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I have searched high and low for the config file to change the server for the weather applet. Anyone have the file location? A system search yielded no results. The applet stopped working for me and my roomate several days ago.

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  • switch to another weather service in preferences>weather services – Frank Schrijver May 19 '16 at 12:13
  • I could not find any such preferences, Frank. Is it possible that your reply relates to a different weather applet like "my weather indicator" or something similar? – UBod May 20 '16 at 06:46

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I had the same problem, and we are not alone: http://www.glx-dock.org/bg_topic.php?t=8945

The update to libcd-weather.so as suggested in Garry Garrison's answer (the link to the binary is also mentioned on http://www.glx-dock.org/bg_topic.php?t=8945) did not work for me. Anyway, I tried to fix it myself and I was successful. What I did was the following (on Ubuntu 16.04LTS with cairo-dock 3.4.1):

  1. I downloaded the package source using apt-get source cairo-dock-plug-ins
  2. In the files cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.4.1/weather/src/applet-config.c and cairo-dock-plug-ins-3.4.1/weather/src/applet-read-data.c, I changed the URLs http://xml.weather.com to http://wxdata.weather.com/wxdata.
  3. Then I followed the instructions presented in How to download, modify, build and install a Debian source package? in the "Classic" section of the first answer (first rebuild, then install).

After a restart of cairo-dock, the weather plug-in worked normally again. This is basically what is suggested as the necessary patch on http://www.glx-dock.org/bg_topic.php?t=8945, however, with some more details on how to actually perform this patch.

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UBod
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Here is a solution (get the file and replace original):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-XSYP5W-8Wea2NWTGJtSkxybEk

I am using Mint 17.3 (64 bit) w/Mate DE and Linux Kernel 3.19.0.22 and Cairo-Dock 3.4.0 and the file worked perfectly for me! Thanks for the fix! I just copied the file as root in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cairo-dock/libcd-weather.so, and now see my screenshot: https://personal.filesanywhere.com/FS/M.aspx?v=8a6b688d5d65aeba6fa4

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Garry Garrison
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I fixed weather plug-in on Kubuntu 14.04!!!

-remove all cairo-dock from Synaptic, and install cairo-dock-

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

Then from https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-XSYP5W-8Wea2NWTGJtSkxybEk

i copied the file as root in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cairo-dock/libcd-weather.so

And Cairo-Dock weather applet working!!!
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