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https://github.com/aveek-saha/pixel-weather
A pixelated weather widget for your desktop
https://github.com/aveek-saha/pixel-weather
8-bit desktop pixel-art weather widget
Last synced: about 2 months ago
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A pixelated weather widget for your desktop
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/aveek-saha/pixel-weather
- Owner: Aveek-Saha
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-12-21T15:56:22.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-01-04T00:48:56.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-13T18:04:06.239Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: 8-bit, desktop, pixel-art, weather, widget
- Language: CSS
- Size: 607 KB
- Stars: 39
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 12
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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README
Pixel Weather 
A small and compact 8 bit style weather widget designed for your desktop.
# Features
- It's transparent background allows it to blend in with your current setup
- Always stays on your desktop so it won't get in your way. This means it's hidden when you switch windows with `alt+tab`
- Switch between dark mode and light mode, for lighter and darker backgrounds respectively.
- Clean interface, with no clutter, all options can be accessed by right clicking.
# How to use
- Install the package.
- Sign up and get your API key from the [`Dark Sky`](https://darksky.net/dev) console.
- When you open the app for the first time, a settings menu pops up, paste your API key there.
- You can also change how often the weather is updated.
- After submitting the settings, right click, refresh and wait for the weather to update.
- You can choose where to place the widget by choosing from the Position menu.
- The menu can be accessed by right clicking anywhere on the widget.
## Known Issues
- Sometimes on startup, the background becomes black, instead of transparent. This can be resolved by closing and restarting the application.
- The widget can be built for Windows, but the application won't stick to your desktop. This is because the `desktop` window type in electron only works on X11 and Linux systems.
- Sometimes the widget takes too long to load the weather, in that case check your internet connection, and try refreshing a couple of times.
## To uninstall
Run this in the terminal
```
sudo apt-get remove pixelweather
```
## Other cool things I made
- [Dusk Player](https://github.com/Aveek-Saha/MusicPlayer): A minimalistic music player, designed for simplicity.
- [YTDX](https://github.com/Aveek-Saha/ytdx): A YouTube audio downloader
- [Hasty Heroes](https://github.com/Aveek-Saha/HastyHeroes): An endless 2D jumping game
## Credits
- This widget is [Powered by Dark Sky](https://darksky.net/poweredby/)
- Settings menu components are from [NES.css](https://nostalgic-css.github.io/NES.css/)
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