[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#923408: lxpanel: weather applet does not update at startup

[Teemu Ikonen]

Package: lxpanel
Version: 0.10.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Thanks for fixing the weather applet by using the OpenWeatherMap API.
Here's another problem though:

When I start my LXDE session the weather applet does not show the
temperature etc., but rather says that weather information for my
location is not available.

I use network manager / nm-applet to set up my networking, so the likely
reason for this is that the weather plugin tries to make a connection to
the servers before the network setup is finished. If I toggle the manual
/ automatic update in the plugin settings after the network is up, the
weather info appears.

The weather plugin should either wait for the network to come up
(network manager has the 'nm-online' util for this, but I'm not sure if
you can assume that network manager is running), or make a few retries
during startup, with a reasonable wait time in between.

Best,
Teemu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lxpanel depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.1.8-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.30.0-2
ii  libc6                2.28-7
ii  libcairo2            1.16.0-2
ii  libcurl3-gnutls      7.64.0-1
ii  libfm-gtk4           1.3.1-1
ii  libfm-modules        1.3.1-1
ii  libfm4               1.3.1-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.13.1-2
ii  libfreetype6         2.9.1-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.38.0+dfsg-7
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.58.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.32-3
ii  libiw30              30~pre9-13
ii  libkeybinder0        0.3.1-1
ii  libmenu-cache3       1.1.0-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.42.4-6
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.42.4-6
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.42.4-6
ii  libwnck22            2.30.7-6
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
ii  lxmenu-data          0.1.5-2
ii  lxpanel-data         0.10.0-1

Versions of packages lxpanel recommends:
ii  libnotify-bin                        0.7.7-4
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator]     0.3.2-1
ii  notification-daemon                  3.20.0-4
ii  pavucontrol                          3.0-4
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-emulator]   9.23~pre.ti-1
ii  stterm [x-terminal-emulator]         0.8.2-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.4.3-1
ii  xkb-data                             2.26-2
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]          344-1

Versions of packages lxpanel suggests:
ii  chromium [www-browser]     72.0.3626.109-1
ii  firefox-esr [www-browser]  60.5.1esr-1
ii  lynx [www-browser]         2.8.9rel.1-3
ii  menu                       2.1.47+b1
ii  w3m [www-browser]          0.5.3-37

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