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(SOLVED) Date display setting

siawacsh

Mon May 27, 2013 2:50:29 pm

I cannot find a way to display the date along side with time on the panel. I have tried to configure it from system settings but could not find any options under date & time. I would appreciate your feedback.

siawacsh

Mon May 27, 2013 4:10:40 pm

I used this fix.

) create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/precise.list with the following contents:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main

3) sudo apt-get update

4) sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator awn-applets-all

5) remove the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/precise.list

6) sudo apt-get update



But I did not know how to do step 5. Can you help me with that?

Wolfman

Mon May 27, 2013 5:19:31 pm

Hi,

did you read the Zorin 6 post install guide?:

Install Dconf-Editor (dconf-tools):

Now you need to install a few packages which you will need to adjust settings on your PC, open Synaptic and type “dconf-tools” and mark it for install, do the same with “gdebi” and then click on “Apply”, once the packages are installed; close Synaptic. (gdebi is installed now by default!)
(dconf-tools is the new configuration editor for Gnome 3 and gdebi is a single deb package install tool)

Dconf-Editor Settings:

Click on Applications > System Tools > dconf Editor and drag it to the desktop (see below for info about adding icons to the desktop) and then double click it to open it. Once dconf has started you might want to make a couple of changes, the following are some important ones I used:

Show date and day in clock:
Dconf Editor > Com > Canonical > Indicator > Datetime > Show Date/Show Day


Change global font size:
Dconf Editor > Org > Gnome > Desktop > Interface > Text-scaling-factor 1.0 (1.0 = font size 10. and 1.1 would be font size 11 and so on) (Mine is set to 1.2 = Font size 12)

Change icon size on desktop:
Dconf Editor > Org > Gnome > Nautilus > Icon-View > Default-Zoom-Level = Small

Show/Hide buttons:
Dconf Editor > Org > Gnome > Gnome Panel > Layout > Toplevels > Top Panel

Show/Hide Desktop icons = Trash/Computer/Home;
Dconf-Editor > Org > Gnome > Nautilus > Desktop

Stop Media Auto Mounting:
Dconf Editor > Org > Gnome > Desktop > Media-Handling > Automount/Automount-open/Autorun Never

If you remove the Precise PPA sources list, you won't get any future updates!!.

See guide:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2054

Update guide:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2247

Regards Wolfman :D

siawacsh

Mon May 27, 2013 7:24:20 pm

Solved. Thank you once again.