Time/Date shell-thingy in F18

Jon Ingason jon.ingason at telia.com
Mon Jan 21 08:31:01 UTC 2013


2013-01-21 09:00, William Murray skrev:
>     Dear list,
>      (What do we call the shell thingies which replaced applets?)
>
> I wanted to have the date at the top of my shiny new FC18 screen, not
> just the time.

Install gnome-tweak-tool (sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool)

> I installed dconf-editor, went to org->gome->shell and found 'calendar'
> and 'clock'
> each of which have booleans, one for 'show-weekdate' and the other for
> 'show-date'
> As far as I can tell these do nothing at all. I toggle and log in/out or
> reboot but no
> date appears.
>    This morning, with the new kernel, my system when into gnome 2
> fallback mode.
> Ah-hah! I siezed the opportunity of a 'preferences' menu on the clock,
> switched
> on the date, and rebooted - perfect; gnome 3, plus date.
>      So I am happy....but there MUST be a better way to switch this on
> and of?
>       Bill
>
>
>
>


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Jon Ingason



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