displaying the time in enlightenment wm

sether · 09-23-2004, 04:20 AM

this is a really simple question but i can't seem to find it in any enlightenment documentation or anywhere online. all i get in google is information on the historical movement, the enlightenment - not the wm.

all i want to know is how to display what time it is in enlightenment similar to how it is displayed in other window managers. thanks in advance.

Hammett · 09-23-2004, 06:41 AM

I had the same problem as you when I used enlightenment. On all wm I've tryed so far, time was show in the taskbar, but since enlightenment does not have a "regular" taskbar, it cannot be shown there. Maybe there are some epplets that will allow that.
If you're using any system monitoring, all of them allow to show the time, is what I used when tryed enlightenment.

darthtux · 09-23-2004, 06:45 AM

http://freshmeat.net/browse/877/

sether · 09-23-2004, 04:27 PM

oh, so that's what epplets are. lol.

thanks

jev-bird · 09-24-2004, 03:14 AM

Epplets are ok but they tend to crash a lot when you restart enlightenment or what not. And the worse part some E themes do not even provide epplets support. xdali clock, dclock, xclock, and oclock are some good light ones that I use. Or gkrellm on sticky, gdesklets, or torsmo.

sether · 09-24-2004, 07:54 PM

i tried out those clocks you recommended jev-bird, but i also want to try epplets. now that i have them installed, what is my "epplets.menu" file supposed to look like? i can't find a lot of docs on epplets, so sorry if this is a really basic question.

sether · 09-25-2004, 03:26 AM

disregard the last post, getting epplets to work is pretty self-explanatory.

now that i have epplets working, i want to know how to move E-Time somewhere other than where it decides to place itself. there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. does anyone have a solution?

*edit*
nm, i just set new windows to be placed manually and was able to put it where i wanted it.