Change the weather app in the notification panel

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Hello community.

Im kinda new with the customization in fedora Linux, i have been using mint for some years but because of work I start using Fedora.

Now, My main issue is in the notification panel the weather app doesnt show my city at all, so i had to put the closest city and is pretty far away from mine (same problem with the clock).

I have been reading in some forums that I need to enable localization in my pc but it is enable and that doesnt change anything.
I will add a picture of what Im seeing:

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Also whenever I click on the default weather application this one opens (the one in the green arrow):
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My question is, there is anything I can do so my default application on the notification panel could be the one in the blue square?
That application has my hometown but I don’t want to open it every time I want to know the temperature, I kinda want to just look up on the date…
I kinda dig how it appears on the notification panel but doesnt help me that just some big cities are upload on that application

Regards, and sorry if my English is bad, this is not my first language.
Thanks in advance.

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Hi Chato,
Welcome to the forums.
You’re English is great! No need to fret on that front.

You could just uninstall gnome-weather

sudo dnf remove gnome-weather

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I’m not sure that will make the other weather app take it’s place in the notification panel.

However, this post is suggesting a workaround to replace the default app. It involves using some extensions though.

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This link says ‘easily’ add your city to Gnome Weather, but is a little above my head still. Maybe you can interpret it properly?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/w0fbf0/gnome_weather_not_finding_locations_only_some/

This is an older Problem …

Just to mention, If your city not has a weather station, the gnome app will take that what is available around your place to make an proximate forecast.

If there are weather stations in your city, you can let approve it (see reddit link). As I do understand it is based on Airport data …

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As I see it, the issue is not that we couldn’t figure out how to replace those values/coordinates, but rather that it won’t be shown in the notification menu. This is from the link you provided:

This way, it will work in the Gnome Weather App, but the display in the Shell notification bar is still problematic.
The weather service integrated in Shell seems to have some logical problems. It will match the nearest place in location.xml.

The issue was discussed on GNOME’s Gitlab in detail here.

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Thanks Mat, I have try to delete It but this workaround doesnt solve my issue, I gonna start to do everything you all suggested me and will be commenting on them.

Thanks to all the reply in such a short time.

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Hello Mike.

Thanks for your comment, this solve the issue but wasnt what i want to do, for now y have what I need but Im gonna keep trying to do exactly what I want, I think this solution solve 90% of the things I wanted to do Thanks a lot!

Regards.

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