Gnome 3 Shell Proxy Settings and Gnome Shell Weather Extension Don't Play Well Together
The title pretty much says it all. Fedora Core 16, and Gnome shell 3.2.2.1. metadata.json from weather@gnome-shell-extensions: { "uuid": "weather@gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org", "name": "Weather indicator", "description": "Adds weather information menu", "shell-version": [ "3.1.90", "3.1.91", "3.1.92", "3.2", "3.3" ], "localedir": "/usr/share/locale", "url": "https://github.com/simon04/gnome-shell-extension-weather" } If you set via Network Manager the proxy settings to something other than "none" your weather shell extension will not be able to query the server and the extension will display that is continually reloading. Turning off the system proxy (and restarting the gnome shell) fixes the problem. Some discussion of the issue which seems to be rooted in the gnome shell infrastructure h...