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How To Make Vista Style Clock in Ubuntu 8.10

Posted by blognusantara | Friday, February 13, 2009

Actually there are some good things in Vista. One of them is Vista's clock. I like day above clock format. Informative yet only small space needed. And Ubuntu can do it too, with a little editing.

This is how to show clock in Ubuntu in Vista way :
  • launch gconf-editor (press Alt-F2 and type gconf-editor)
  • go to /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/custom_format
  • paste this :
    <span size="smaller" color="#27369E">%a%d%b%n<b>%H:%M</b></span>
  • go to /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/format
  • type : custom
See picture below :



And the result :



You may need to resize your panel size to fit the new clock . Do it by right-click your panel and click properties and then adjust the size to at least to 32.

You can edit the format to your liking, read custom strftime here.



keyword : vista clock | ubuntu | longhorn

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