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font

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Registered: 2025-07-04

Posts: 7

Weather widget no longer working

Hi,
Beginning a few months ago, the Weather widget no longer provides data for US locations
that I've tried.
I assumed someone would have fixed it pretty quickly, since this is a quality of life issue.
It can still find locations by searching for them but it always says "Currently no data available".
Hasn't anyone noticed this bug?
Is no one available to work on it?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,550

Re: Weather widget no longer working

Hello and welcome.

Depends on the version you are using. The backend API changes quite regularly and the plugin needs to be updated to accommodate. Version 0.11.3 or later should work.

Which distro, version of Xfce, and version of the weather plugin are you currently using?

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font

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Registered: 2025-07-04

Posts: 7

Re: Weather widget no longer working

Hello and welcome.
Depends on the version you are using. The backend API changes quite regularly and the plugin needs to be updated to accommodate. Version 0.11.3 or later should work.
Which distro, version of Xfce, and version of the weather plugin are you currently using?

I'm running Debian amd64 12.11
xfce4/stable,now 4.18
xfce4-weather-plugin/stable,now 0.11.0-1.

Debian is always so very slow to update packages. For instance I'm still on Firefox 128.

Last edited by font (2025-07-05 23:12:14)

gogogadget

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From: EU

Registered: 2023-03-19

Posts: 50

Re: Weather widget no longer working

xfce4-weather-plugin/stable,now 0.11.0-1.

You can get the last version :

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-ba … her-plugin

if you're fine with using the bookworm backports.

https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

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Jamie_Casper

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Registered: 2026-01-13

Posts: 8

Re: Weather widget no longer working

I had the exact same issue on Debian a while back! Moving to the backports version like gogogadget suggested is definitely the way to go. Debian Stable is great for reliability, but for anything that relies on a web API (like weather or maps), the packages just get outdated too fast. Once you get 0.11.3+ installed, it should pop back to life immediately.

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 943

Re: Weather widget no longer working

Debian is always so very slow to update packages. For instance I'm still on Firefox 128.

Your running Debian stable. Other than a security update you will never see a package update. Your frozen in time. Using backports is your only options unless you do a total upgrade to Trixie (Debian 13).

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him610

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From: Pennsylvania USA

Registered: 2022-02-19

Posts: 44

Re: Weather widget no longer working

Debian is always so very slow to update packages. For instance I'm still on Firefox 128.

Your running Debian stable. Other than a security update you will never see a package update. Your frozen in time. Using backports is your only options unless you do a total upgrade to Trixie (Debian 13).

That is true. I have two machines with Trixie(Deb 13) where the weather app works, and two machines with Xubuntu 24.04.4 with the non-working weather app (xfce4-weather-plugin:amd64  0.11.2-1build2)

The person who said that Debian is slow to update is not true in this case.

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