Wmweather+ Dockapp

[Floppyman]

Hi all,

I went ahead and installed the WmWeather+ Dock app today on my Mandrake 9.1 system. The problem is, the Dockapp shows up in the upper left hand corner, but I can't move it. The only error I can see is this when I try to right click on it (there should be a menu popping up when you do this, yet that also doesn't seem to work):

/bin/sh: line 1: xless: command not found

I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have any ideas? I would just like to be able to move this thing around my desktop, but it's not working. Thanks in advance.

[fudtone]

I would be happy to install that and try to trouble shoot it myself but I have not figured out how to use the .tar files yet.

I downloaded it maybe I can get it going.

[Floppyman]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. The file is actually a tar.gz file (gz = gunzip)

So to untar and unzip it you would issue the following command:

tar -xvzf filename

Thanks again for the help.

[bailey]

I downloaded it and unpacked it.
how do you install it ?

[Floppyman]

Go inside the unpacked directory.

From the command prompt you can do this with the cd command (cd = change directory)

Just type cd and then the path to the wmweather+ folder.

eg.

cd /home/username/wmweather+/

Once in there issue this command:

./configure

(or just configure)

Once that's done (make sure all the dependencies are there), type:

make

after that's done:

make install

This should install the app.

HTH

[bailey]

when I do the congigure it comes up with a error at the bottom saying libwrester required

[Floppyman]

Ok, go ahead and do a search for that package on google. You'll probably need both the regular and developer version. HTH

[bailey]

got it and now ready to install the windowmaker program.
to do the install it wants a directory to put in in, what do I say, as I got no idea what I am doing

[Floppyman]

Hmmm, it never prompted me for a directory. What exactly does it say? Does it give you a default option? HTH

[bailey]

I am in the terminal, did the configure, did the make, then install, says too few paramiters
wants sourse, destination
type that in and it says it is a directory and don't do anything
need this to fight with the weather program after this is installed

[Floppyman]

Hi,

Just doublechecking, but after make, you did type "make install" right (not just "install")? If you choose the wmweather+ directory as the source and another as the destination, does it work? HTH

[bailey]

ok, I found out that I was supposed to me in the root mode when I did this.
looged in as root and everything worked fine.
now I need to learn how to get the program set up to be on the desk top.
I am sure that it is in the usr/din directory some where but have not looked for it yet.
I will continue this when I get home from school today.

by the way, I finally got the lan printer working too.

[fudtone]

Right clicking on the desktop may (KDE will) give you the option to create a new link on desktop.

[kilgoretrout]

I think there's an applet called "kweather" which does pretty much the same thing and sits in the taskbar.