WSL/Debian - Weather - Location Unavailable

[Erich-Chen]

Describe the bug

The weather module displays "Location Unavailable" on WSL/Debian platform.

Cause

ping does not work on WSL/Debian. Thus ping -q -c 1 -W 1 ipinfo.io fails.

Seeing Line 66 - 70 in https://github.com/dracula/tmux/blob/master/scripts/weather.sh, "Location Unavailable" displays.

Resolution

Referring to Issue #5109 for WSL, a workaround can be:

$ sudo setcap cap_net_raw+p /bin/ping

System

• OS: Debian 12 on WSL (Windows Subsystem Linux)
• Tmux Version: 3.3a

[ethancedwards8]

Check now? We reworked the plugin a little bit to use a builtin TCP connection.

[guimochila]

@ethancedwards8 timeout command is not available on OSX bash version by default. To make it work locally I had to create a timeout command in the weather.sh file:

timeout() {
    perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV' "$duration" "$@"
}

I'd have to install coreutils package to have access to the timeout command but this is already adding dependency to a bash script.

[ethancedwards8]

@ethancedwards8 timeout command is not available on OSX bash version by default. To make it work locally I had to create a timeout command in the weather.sh file:

timeout() {
    perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV' "$duration" "$@"
}

I'd have to install coreutils package to have access to the timeout command but this is already adding dependency to a bash script.

I had not considered that. If you would like to submit a PR to fix that, I will accept it.

[guimochila]

@ethancedwards8 sure! I can open a PR to fix it. xD

[guimochila]

@ethancedwards8 PR is open: #288