Weather applet connection to internet

[Larry Grover]

jean gruneberg wrote:
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>> You can specify "direct internet connection" here (no proxy).
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>> Regards,
>> Larry
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> Larry
> 
> That is set to direct connection ... sigh ... Anyway, not too serious as 
>  it is not that important and within the next 16 months will have to 
> upgrade to 7.04 anyway.......

Oh... too bad.  Here's a couple more things you might try.

You could check the proxy settings in the "configuration editor".  From 
the gnome menu, select system tools -> configuration editor.  In the 
configuration editor, try looking under /system/http_proxy and 
/system/proxy.

You might try removing the weather applet from the panel, and then 
adding it back.  Doing this seems to unset all the weather related 
preferences, perhaps it does the same for the proxy setting?

Assuming you've already tried these (or that they don't work):  (1) does 
the same problem exist for other users on this system? (2) does the 
problem persist even if you temporarily move the .gconf* and .gnome* in 
your home directory?

(1) If you have the same problem with other users on the system, then it 
is a system wide configuration issue.  If the problem exists only for 
one user, then the problem lies in some setting in your home directory. 
  If you don't have another user on your system, try creating a test 
user and see if the weather-applet works correctly for that user.

(2) If the problem is unique to your user, and doesn't occur for other 
users on the system, try temporarily moving these directories:

.gconf/
.gconfd/
.gnome/
.gnome2/
.gnome2_private/

I have a temporary directory created inside my home directory 
(/home/grover/tmp) which I use for this purpose.  Try moving the .gconf* 
and .gnome* directories out of your home directory and into a temporary 
location (*don't* just delete them, among other things, they store your 
personal desktop configuration; if you like the way your desktop is set 
up, you probably don't want to have to recreate it).

Log out and log back in.  You should now have the default desktop set 
up.  At this point, you can try adding the weather applet to the panel 
now, and see if it works properly.  If it does, the problem is some 
misconfiguration or corruption in one of the directories you moved.  You 
can add these directories back to their original location one-by-one 
until you discover which one is causing the problem.

If you can identify one of the directories as the source of the problem, 
then you can repeat the restore process for the contents of this 
directory.  Eventually, you should be able to pin-point the problem to 
one file.  You might be able to solve the problem by examining the 
contents of the "bad" file, or if not, simple deleting the bad file 
should fix things. In deleting the bad file you might lose some 
configuration information, but much less than you would by 
indiscriminately wiping out all of the .gconf* and .gnome* directories.

Well, I hope at least one of these suggestions helps.  This is how I 
would go about trying to troubleshot this problem.

Regards,
Larry