You can make your clock applet prettier by changing two lines with gconf-editor. Here’s how to do it:
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Pretty GNOME clock
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So cute
Thanks for this tip !
Fantastic tip, thanks
Cool!
Thanks! that’s great, I didn’t know gconf-editor
I didn’t put the hour in bold tho, the span smaller is good enough.
I wonder what else I can modify from this app
I also used to use a dark theme like this, but firefox became unusable. (White text on white input boxes and the like)
Do you have this problem too ? Is avoiding this a function of the theme you use ?
Wade Mealing: you can change the default colors in firefox (edit > preferences > content > colors). This takes care of most of the websites, but not all.
Could you come up with some good values for a standard grey panel as well?
This looks sweet, lets put this in soon!
this needs:
A big closeup of the styled clock applet.
The style text verbatim in the blog post so that it is selectable & ctrl-c-able
I agree with the post above !
I had no idea gnome-panel’s GConf could accept html like input…
thanks!
What do I have to change to make it in the 12 hour format?
Brandon: Edit the hour_format key in the same way or right click the clock applet -> preferences.
> What do I have to change to make it in the 12 hour format?
Format keys are the same as for the “date” command. For 12-hour replace %H:%M with %l:%M %p. For all options see “man date” or:
FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form
specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:
%% a literal %
%a locale’s abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A locale’s full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b locale’s abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B locale’s full month name (e.g., January)
%c locale’s date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
%C century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)
%d day of month (e.g, 01)
%D date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e day of month, space padded; same as %_d
%F full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%g last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
%h same as %b
%H hour (00..23)
%I hour (01..12)
%j day of year (001..366)
%k hour ( 0..23)
%l hour ( 1..12)
%m month (01..12)
%M minute (00..59)
%n a newline
%N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P like %p, but lower case
%r locale’s 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
%S second (00..60)
%t a tab
%T time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x locale’s date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X locale’s time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y year
%z +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
%:z +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)
%::z +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
%:::z numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04,
+05:30)
%Z alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)
By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. The following
optional flags may follow ‘%’:
- (hyphen) do not pad the field
_ (underscore) pad with spaces
0 (zero) pad with zeros
^ use upper case if possible
# use opposite case if possible
After any flags comes an optional field width, as a decimal number;
then an optional modifier, which is either E to use the locale’s alter‐
nate representations if available, or O to use the locale’s alternate
numeric symbols if available.