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diff --git a/desktop/CurseTheWeather/README b/desktop/CurseTheWeather/README index 64f4305c01..c3b41705e6 100644 --- a/desktop/CurseTheWeather/README +++ b/desktop/CurseTheWeather/README @@ -1,16 +1,19 @@ -CurseTheWeather v0.3 +CurseTheWeather is a python application which displays the weather in a +terminal via a ncurses frontend (ctw). This frontend shows ascii-art weather +icons along with the current weather conditions and 10 day forecast. -CurseTheWeather is a curses application which displays the -weather in a terminal. It can give the current weather as -well as forcast for up to 10 days. +weatherfeed.py is the python module that grabs the weather data from +weather.com, and it can used by frontends other than ctw. -weatherfeed.py is a module that it uses and it can be used -by other frontends to get weather information. Each time it -is instantiated, it grabs the weather from weather.com -Due to the fact that the CurseTheWeather website uses trac the -download is somewhat misformed when using wget. If you use FF or another -browser this problem should not occur. +** ctw and Transparency, Different Colors ** -The following commandshould solve this: -mv CurseTheWeather-0.3.tar.gz\?format\=raw CurseTheWeather-0.3.tar.gz +If you are interested in changing the colors in ctw, or if you use +transparency in your terminals and would like this to work with ctw, then +simply modify initColors() in /usr/bin/ctw. For transparency, simply add: + +curses.use_default_colors() + +at line 125 (just under "curses.start_color()"). +Modifying the lines with "curses.init_pair" will allow you to modify the text +colors used. |