How To Install Weather Indicator In Ubuntu 13.04 [Quick Tip]

Ubuntu’s default Weather Indicator, which is certainly among the most popular applet indicators, has been removed from the official repository as it was found to be broken in Ubuntu 13.04. Weather Indicator crashes when trying to add a new location and the weather forecast doesn’t work at all. That left users to opt for My Weather Indicator, another weather app with more option than the good old Weathe Indicator.

Good news is, thanks to Joshua Weather Indicator has been fixed now. Though the fix is not available in Ubuntu Software Center yet, you can use it by adding the PPA provided by Joshua.

Install Weather Indicator in Ubuntu 13.04:

Open terminal and use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jtasker/weather-indicator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-weather

Once installed, you can open it by looking for it in Unity Dash. You need to configure it just once and it will be automatically started at every boot. The most important configuration you need is to add your geographic location. Also, don’t forget to check “Show temperature near indicator” box in the preferences to display the current temperature in top panel.

Install Weather Indicator App in Ubuntu 13.04

I hope that you install Weather Indicator easily with this PPA. I took the liberty of not explaining the steps to configure it as it is very simple. But feel free to ask for it, if you face any troubles. Do you still find some bugs in it? Do let me know. Enjoy :)

Chromium May Replace Firefox As Default Browser In Ubuntu 13.10

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Ubuntu 13.10 may be shipping with Chromium as its default web browser replacing Mozilla Firefox. For those who do not know, Chromium is an Open Source project and popular web browser Google Chrome is built upon it. Chromium is available in Ubuntu Software Center for the download.

In a discussion at Ubuntu Developers Summit, majority of developers favored Chromium over Firefox for several reasons. One of the foremost among them is that switch to webkit-based browser will provide consistency across various platforms (desktop, phone and tablet). Switching to Chromium will also enhance Unity Web Apps with the added advantage of ‘Chromeless’ state (currently the web Apps open in a ‘new tab’ rather than a chromless window). Since Chromium is already popular among users, the switch would not be an uncomfortable one.

The points, as discussed, that goes against Chromium are no in-browser PDF reader, inability to be build on all architectures, lack of support for Orca etc.

Even if Chromium is made the default browser, latest version of Firefox will be available to install in Ubuntu Software Center. You can see the hangout video of the UDC to get more details:

What you say of this move? Which one you prefer to be your default browser, Chromium or Firefox?

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How To Install Weather Indicator In Ubuntu 13.04

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