Shy and naked alarm-clock-applet window in BookwormPup64-10 [SOLVED]

[TaTchou]

Hi everyone.
I don't know if this is Bookworm or JWM problem, so sorry if I posted in the wrong place.

I installed alarm-clock-applet, it works fine, except when I right-click the tray icon, select "Show alarm", the little window appears without borders, title bar, menu., and always hiding behind the other windows. Which is not very convenient to move or close it.

I tried this in jwmrc-personnal :

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<Group>
<Name>alarm-clock-applet</Name>
<Option>title</Option>
 <Option>border</Option>
<Option>list</Option>
<Option>ontop|above</Option>
</Group>

but nothing changed. I'm not even sure about the lil window's name, and how to find it in lxtask.

Any idea ?

[bigpup]

What is the specific name of the applet?

where did you get it?

Got a download link you could give us to try using it?

[TaTchou]

I installed it with Synaptic manager, from the Debian's repositories.
It is just a little timer/countdown like kteatime, in the systray.
I have used it for 10 years in all my xBuntu distros.

Here is the official website : https://alarm-clock-applet.github.io/
Here's a .deb download link : https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/am ... t/download

And here's how it should look (in ZorinOS) :

And thanks for taking care

[MochiMoppel]

I tried this in jwmrc-personnal :

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<Group>
<Name>alarm-clock-applet</Name>
<Option>title</Option>
 <Option>border</Option>
<Option>list</Option>
<Option>ontop|above</Option>
</Group>

but nothing changed. I'm not even sure about the lil window's name, and how to find it in lxtask.
Any idea ?

Very strange. Apart from the last option (should be <Option>layer:above</Option>), everything is correct. The name reported by JWM is alarm-clock-applet and the Class is Alarm-clock-applet. You would find the Name/Class with xprop, not lxtask. But why does JWM ignore it? No idea.

But I may have found a way to fix it. This worked for me:

In jwmrc-personal I added

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<Group>
<Class>ShyAlarmclock</Class>
<Option>title</Option>
<Option>border</Option>
<Option>list</Option>
<Option>layer:above</Option>
</Group>

then running jwm -restart from console

Then I started alarm-clock-applet with the --class option (see alarm-clock-applet --help-all for possible options):

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/usr/bin/alarm-clock-applet --class=ShyAlarmclock

Produced an error message but seems to have no bad effect.

This resulted in a window with complete decoration, always on top and listed in the tray:

alarm-clock-applet.png (41.29 KiB) Viewed 325 times

[MochiMoppel]

But why does JWM ignore it? No idea.

Well, I finally can answer my own question
@TaTchou The reason for the shy and naked window is a questionable JWM configuration. I'm very cautious here because it's a deliberate configuration and must have been made for a reason. Maybe @radky knows more. The culprit in your case is buried in /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc , which generates /root/.jwmrc , starting line 244:

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<Group>
<Class>applet</Class>
<Option>layer:below</Option>
<Option>noborder</Option>
<Option>notitle</Option>
<Option>sticky</Option>
<Option>nolist</Option>
<Option>nopager</Option>
</Group>

This setting matches alarm-clock-applet's class name Alarm-clock-applet Certainly not how you want the window appear. If you remove this setting alarm-clock-applet will start normally, but if this was made specifically for another applet (maybe conky?) you should leave it as is and use the command line argument I mentioned in the previous post. Use any class name you like, Only condition is that it doesn't contain the string "applet".

[TaTchou]

@MochiMoppel
You're the man ! (or woman, idk)

Plus, good occasion to learn more about JWM. So many config files all over the place.
Nice to see this window standing proudly dressed up on top, instead of hiding behind oclock.

The error msg in console you are reporting appears even before tweaking jwm-personnal. It's an alarm-clock thing.

Bonne journée !