How to show date on task bar on Trisquel 7.0?

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lovefreedom
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I installed Trisquel 7.0.

I don't know how to show date on task bar. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!

onpon4
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I don't see an option to do this with the Indicator Applet (which Trisquel 7 uses by default), but one possibility is to use the Clock Applet instead (add it to the panel by right-clicking on an empty space and choosing "Add to panel...", then choosing "Clocks"). If you do this, you may also want to use the Notification Area applet to replace the Indicator Applet's notification area, unless you want to have two clocks showing at once. :)

a_slacker_here
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This solution is compatible with indicator-applet
to activate:

$ dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/show-date 'true'
$ dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/show-year 'true'

Deactivate:

$ dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/show-date 'false'
$ dconf write /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/show-year 'false'
lovefreedom
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This is a simple solution.

Thank you!

a_slacker_here
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It's a pleasure for me :)

bchurchwell
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Wow, thank you for that. I have no idea how normal users are expected to know that.

a_slacker_here
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Me neither mr bchurchwell.

There are more options, try to download dconf-editor, execute it and explore the options. You didn't think that there were so many (me neither until I read the gnome-manual).

Cheers

jxself
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Indeed. GNOME is very configurable but most stuff is hidden away under the name of making things "simpler" and "easier" and whatnot.

onpon4
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Indicator Applet is a Unity thing, not a GNOME thing, though. In fact, this setting for GNOME is a checkbox in the GNOME Tweak Tool. :)

jxself
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Thanks, but I was speaking to GNOME stuff dconf-editor. :)

a_slacker_here
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Unity uses a lot of components of the project gnome and share a lot of its standards, including the same configuration pattern.