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Hello
I am running Xenial64 on a Dell Latitude E6230
I have done something to my desktop and the date no longer appears at the bottom RHS of the desktop. The time is still displayed, but no date. If I RH click on the time it opens xcalendar whereas my other working systems do show the date and RH click opens pupclockset.
I need the date as I never know it so how can I get it back.
Help appreciated.
Thanks
number77

Try opening pupclockset from the main menu.
Menu > Desktop > PupClockset manager

Select the time and date format you want.

Notice there is also an “Options” tab. Select that and you should see an “Action” drop down. Select “clockset.”

There is a “Set” button at the bottom left corner to make your changes effective.

number77 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:45 pm

Hello
I have done something to my desktop and the date no longer appears at the bottom RHS of the desktop. The time is still displayed, but no date. If I RH click on the time it opens xcalendar whereas my other working systems do show the date and RH click opens pupclockset.
I need the date as I never know it so how can I get it back.
Help appreciated.
Thanks
number77

open ~/.jwmrc-tray or ~/.jwm/jwmrc-tray2 in geany and look at the line, I have mine <Clock format=": %a-%b %d | %l:%M%p :">exec:PupClockset</Clock>

gychang wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 2:47 pm

number77 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:45 pm

Hello
I have done something to my desktop and the date no longer appears at the bottom RHS of the desktop. The time is still displayed, but no date. If I RH click on the time it opens xcalendar whereas my other working systems do show the date and RH click opens pupclockset.
I need the date as I never know it so how can I get it back.
Help appreciated.
Thanks
number77

open ~/.jwmrc-tray or ~/.jwm/jwmrc-tray2 in geany and look at the line, I have mine <Clock format=": %a-%b %d | %l:%M%p :">exec:PupClockset</Clock>

Thanks gychang
That did it on reboot.
Thanks for help
number77

chris_r wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:21 am

Try opening pupclockset from the main menu.
Menu > Desktop > PupClockset manager

Select the time and date format you want.

Notice there is also an “Options” tab. Select that and you should see an “Action” drop down. Select “clockset.”

There is a “Set” button at the bottom left corner to make your changes effective.

Thanks chris_r, not work on mine but thanks anyway.

@number77 :-

Not all Pups came with PupClockSet OOTB; off the "top of my head", I can't remember if Xenial64 was one of these.

If you need it, you can find it here:-

viewtopic.php?t=5436

Some of the older Pups, when you clicked on the date/time, brought up a calendar window related to Osmo. PupClockSet changes that action, and assigns a click on the date/time as a call for PupClockSet itself.

Let us know if that helps, please! Editing ~/.jwmrc-tray is of course the other way - I do this a lot - but not everyone is happy with editing config files...

Mike.