Kai Ponte wrote:

Okay, that is just plain bizarre! I did some research and found the following.

Here's the official Cool Solutions article.

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11404.html

Here's something I dug up from this list about a year ago from Randall on the SUSE-KDE group:

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-kde/2005-May/0100.html

<quote> There seems to be some kind of race condition in the kweatherreport / kweatherservice start-up processing. It existed in 9.1 and remains in 9.3. The first time you start kweatherreport it in turn starts up kweatherservice. Sometimes kweatherservice doesn't get the information for the selected reporting station by the time kweatherreport queries it and you get a bogus message. E.g., just now it told me the station nearest me "reports that it needs maintenance." Closing the report window and immediately re-launching kweatherreport produced a proper display. I could reproduce this by manually killing kweatherservice and re-running kweatherreport. Kweatherservice keeps running even after you close all the kweatherreport windows.

Ultimately, I created a script that starts kweatherservice explicitly, sleeps one second and then starts kweatherreport. When kweatherreport quits, it kills kweatherservice.

Here it is:

-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- #!/bin/bash --norc

kweatherservice; sleep 1.0

kweatherreport "$@"

killproc kweatherservice 2>/dev/null -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- </quote>

HTH!

Hi Kai. Thanks again, and very nice you found what you found. The coolsolution information is not the KWeather version I run here. I can see, that it is older, a sit has it's ICAO searching placed in the first window. I have saved and run the script from the other article, but there's something I cannot see. Does the manually stop/start means, that he removed the KWeather applet from the panel ?. Here's what the execution of the script did here: ./kweathertool kbuildsycoca running... Usage: kweatherreport [Qt-options] [KDE-options] location Weather Report for KWeatherService Generic options: --help Show help about options --help-qt Show Qt specific options --help-kde Show KDE specific options --help-all Show all options --author Show author information -v, --version Show version information --license Show license information -- End of option What is the Qt-options and the KDE-options ?. Think the "location" is the ICAO code ? Erik