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Offline wsamh

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date and time
« on: June 01, 2011, 08:40:52 PM »
Is there a way to get the date and time displayed on the desktop?

Offline MikeLockmoore

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Re: date and time
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2011, 08:51:45 PM »
The installable extension named Flit that I wrote will show a small time display, and it shows the date if you hover the mouse over it.  Flit can also show you a battery state and the system sound level.  You can scale the display if you hand-edit Flit's run-time configuration  file.

Conky is another installable extension that is used for this purpose in many versions of Linux.  Conky is highly configurable, so if you want to tune the appearance in multiple ways.  Search for "conky" in the forums here or google it.

Both Flit and Conky are available in the official repository of extensions installable from AppBrowser.
« Last Edit: June 01, 2011, 08:54:05 PM by MikeLockmoore »

Offline wsamh

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Re: date and time
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2011, 09:35:30 PM »
Thanks

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: date and time
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2011, 10:45:53 PM »
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watch -n 1 date
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Re: date and time
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2011, 02:00:11 AM »
^ I wonder what the root app name was.. root-tail?
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Re: date and time
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2011, 03:44:59 AM »
^ I wonder what the root app name was.. root-tail?

I don't get the question...   ???
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Re: date and time
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2011, 06:53:00 AM »
It's the app to print logs etc on your desktop, highly relevant to watching date ;)
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