Weather applet connection to internet

[Larry Grover]

jean gruneberg wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have a quirk in the weather applet connecting to the net....
> 
> Bit 'o history.
> 
> When I built my laptop (colony2 or thereabouts) I had ISDN dial up 
> running on a windows box on my lan, all internet connections were 
> through a proxy on the win box.
> 
> Have subsequently upgraded to ADSL, my laptop / ubuntu box / windows box 
> connects diretly through the router, the windows box still runs proxy so 
> my 2 kids pc's connect through that to the net (so I can have the 
> illusion of control!)
> 
> Anyway, no problems converting the laptop to the router except for the 
> weather applet.  If proxy not running it does not update - so it is 
> still using the proxy to connect.  Have tried looking everywhere for 
> where it sets it connection info to no avail.  Anyone know where it sets 
> it connection settings?

Assuming you're talking about the weather applet for the gnome panel, 
you might try looking in the gnome menus under:
system -> preferences -> network proxy?

I'd guess this is where proxy setttings are specified for gnome 
applications.

You can specify "direct internet connection" here (no proxy).

Regards,
Larry