Weather plugin loading before WIFI connection

[agmg]

When I boot into Phinx, the weather plugin is loading before my wifi connection is established and it always shows "no data". I have to manually refresh it afterwards to get the readings. It's a matter of 3-5 seconds. Is there any way to "delay" the loading of the plugin so it starts after being connected to the internet?

[charsan2]

That is a good question. I have experienced this on many XFCE distros like another distro, thought it was just me.

[Sproggy]

the question here is not how fast your weather plugin is ... but how slow you wifi connection is ...

[agmg]

Now that you mention it, the network manager is the last thing that loads during boot... First checks ethernet connection (which I don't use) and displays a message about it being down, and then connects to wlan0. Is there a way to make this procedure faster? For example, disable ethernet connection?

Weather plugin refreshes after about half a minute and gets the info from the net. Actually I was rushing to refresh it without realizing that if I let it, it would eventually refresh.

[djohnston]

Is there a way to make this procedure faster? For example, disable ethernet connection?

Disable the ethernet chipset in your computer's BIOS. Then remove the ethernet connection in PCC > Network & Internet > Remove a connection. I say disable in BIOS because I believe the connection will be re-enabled as long as PCLinuxOS detects you have an ethernet chipset.

Of course, if you use the ethernet connection in the future, you'll need to re-enable it in BIOS and will have the same scenario again.

[agmg]

Thanks! I know how to completely disable my ethernet adapter but never thought of that because I never had problems with it being enabled and not used... Will try that when I get back to my laptop