Changing the look of gnome-panel's clock

[brentaal]

Found this on reddit and thought I'd share it here. (everything below this line has been copy-pasted)

I just found out you can customize the clock applet quite a bit:

open gconf-editor, go to /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs, set the format key to "custom", then edit the custom_format key as you like.

Two examples (I use the second one):

custom_key value:

<sup><span rise="3000" font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="normal">%a %d %b</span></sup>%n<sub><span font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="bold">%I:%M %p</span></sub>

custom_key value:

<sup><span rise="1000" font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="normal">%a %F</span></sup>%n<sub><span font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="bold">%H:%M %z</span></sub>

You may have to enlarge the panel height of a couple of pixels (<25px looks like **** with this font) to have a decent result though.

I really like it.

Source: reddit

[Aeikus]

I never knew you could do that. Nice. Thanks for sharing :D

[robz0rz]

At the risk of connecting my reddit account to this nickname (you know how they figure out who you are through mystical ways sometimes):

<span size="smaller" color="#999999">%a %d %b</span>	<b>%H:%M <small>%S</small></b>

This is what I've been using for the longest time. I think I got it of a blogpost from Hylke Bons

[Rob2687]

That's pretty cool.

I tried using the seconds display but it doesn't actually refresh every second so you can't see the clock ticking.

[robz0rz]

Be sure to also tick the option show_seconds then ? or right-click the clock applet, select preferences, and tick "Show seconds" there. Problem solved

[LightIdea]

Wow...

I never actually knew you could do that, this is going in my How-To pile :p

[ceminess]

Found this on reddit and thought I'd share it here. (everything below this line has been copy-pasted)

I just found out you can customize the clock applet quite a bit:

open gconf-editor, go to /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs, set the format key to "custom", then edit the custom_format key as you like.

Two examples (I use the second one):

custom_key value:

<sup><span rise="3000" font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="normal">%a %d %b</span></sup>%n<sub><span font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="bold">%I:%M %p</span></sub>

custom_key value:

<sup><span rise="1000" font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="normal">%a %F</span></sup>%n<sub><span font_desc="Sans 7.5" color="#606060" weight="bold">%H:%M %z</span></sub>

You may have to enlarge the panel height of a couple of pixels (<25px looks like **** with this font) to have a decent result though.

I really like it.

Source: reddit

Thats cool, I'll have to try that when I get home.

[Syanide]

Can't wait to test this. (Y)

[+Raphaël G. MVC]

This is so simple but great! Thanks for sharing!!

[x-scratch]

thanks when i boot back into ubuntu i will try this out :)

[Christopher Rodican]

thanks. mine is a variant of the OSX one someone posted somewhere else, but different, made to look like a vintage digital clock:

<sup><span font_desc="Minisystem 21" color="green" weight="bold" > %a </span> <span font_desc="Minisystem 21" color="green" weight="bold" >%I:%M %p</span></sup>

requires the Minisystem font available here from FontCenter: http://www.fontcenter.com/fonts/minisystem.html they have a lot of nice fonts, i also recommend zero threes among others. if doesnt matter if you click on mac font or pc font, they both work fine in the font installer.