Customizing the Format of Your Gnome Clock/Date Applet

[vtel57]

Tired of the default format of your Gnome Clock/Date Applet?

Here's how you can change it...

Tools needed:

1) Terminal
2) gconf-editor

Step 1: Open your terminal and type:

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$ man date

This will give you the necessary string variables to customize your date/clock display.

Step 2: Open gconf-editor (Configuration Editor in Gnome Menu):

Step 3: Navigate in gconf-editor to Apps --> Panel --> Applets --> clock_screen0 --> Prefs.

Step 4: Double click on "format" and type in "custom" (no quotes).

Step 5: Double click on "custom format".

Step 6: Enter your custom string data (see Step 1 above) to modify your clock/date display.

The default display in Gnome is U.S.-centric... Monday, May 14 6:01PM. Using this method, you can change that format to whatever you like. For example, on my own system, I changed it to "%H:%M - %A, %d %b", which displays thusly: 18:01 - Monday, 14 May.

Here's a before/after screenshot:



Have FUN!

[TonyT]

You can change the text color also by editing (add code to) your current theme gtkrc:

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# clock text color
style "panel-clock"
{
  fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"  #change color here
}
widget "*.clock-applet-button.*" style "panel-clock"

[vtel57]

Where can you find the gtkrc file?

[JaRaEeZ]

Where can you find the gtkrc file?

not on my PC at the mo' but isn't in your home directory hidden of course ~/.gtkrc

[vtel57]

Where can you find the gtkrc file?

not on my PC at the mo' but isn't in your home directory hidden of course ~/.gtkrc

HAHA! Yeah... it's been one of those days. When I first went to look for it I did "ls -a /home/vtel57". It wasn't there. HA! I'm in Slackware. What a dummy! Anyway, yeah... it's in my /home/<user> directory in my Gnome distros.

Thanks!