At the command line, how do I get the current location that geoclue2 would report?
There's no man page or bin/ executable in my Arch package.
redshift (which uses geoclue2) is reporting my location as:
7.98 98.37
But google maps gives me:
9.749160, 99.975484
Is there any way to configure what sources geoclue2 uses to get better accuracy?
Most google geoclue2 searches bring up redshift which isn't too helpful :(
$ sudo apt install geoclue-2-demo
$ /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i
… and see the scary magic unfold.
A .desktop launcher file is always required for knowing which application IDs to allow. The where-am-i.desktop file is provided at /usr/share/applications/geoclue-where-am-i.desktop
Geolocation sources and allowed applications are configured in /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf. Application IDs are mentioned without the .desktop file extension.
To actually answer the question, the geoclue-2.0 Ubuntu package provides a binary at /usr/lib/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i, which will print the location GeoClue reports, as well as the accuracy:
$ /usr/lib/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i
Client object: /org/freedesktop/GeoClue2/Client/12
New location:
Latitude: 1.234000°
Longitude: 1.234000°
Accuracy: 25000.000000 meters
Timestamp: Sun 21 Jun 2020 17:54:37 BST (1592758477 seconds since the Epoch)
If this fails with an error complaining that there’s no agent for the current user, start the demo agent first:
/usr/lib/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent &
On Arch, after installing geoclue the geoclue.service has to be started (e.g., systemctl restart geoclue.service).
For me, accessing the location on Google Maps from within qutebrowser worked. Nothing in the config had to be changed. I did have to wait several minutes, restart the browser, and reopen the page though.
redshift. Thegeocluedoco implies that they should be accurate, so I'm trying to work out why it's not. Alsogeoclueis the only Linux choice for Mozilla Location Service if not using KDE