[SOLVED] Seconds in MATE panel clock causes system tray items to move.

scasey · 10-28-2019, 12:18 PM

Yup. The clock is changed to "Mon Oct 28 09:03:28" on the MATE panel

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

Thanks. Alas, 'clock' does not show anywhere for me.

No. Not at that level. What do you see for org.mate.panel ? You have to drill down from there

Did you try the dconf list command?

Code:

[scasey@localhost ~]$ dconf list /org/mate/panel/
general/
toplevels/
objects/
[scasey@localhost ~]$ dconf list /org/mate/panel/objects/
workspace-switcher/
clock/
menu-bar/
file-browser/
window-list/
notification-area/
show-desktop/
object-0/
web-browser/
terminal/
[scasey@localhost ~]$ dconf list /org/mate/panel/objects/clock/
applet-iid
locked
toplevel-id
position
object-type
panel-right-stick
prefs/
[scasey@localhost ~]$ dconf list /org/mate/panel/objects/clock/prefs/
temperature-unit
format
cities
custom-format
show-seconds
#
dconf read /org/mate/panel/objects/clock/prefs/custom-format

I don't think the DIR and KEY are actual paths on the filesystem. See man dconf
They certainly don't exist on mine. dconf is needed to find and use them.

linustalman · 10-28-2019, 01:12 PM

Code:

dconf list /org/mate/panel/objects/

Code:

object-2/
notification-area/
object-1/
object-10/
object-0/
object-3/

I wonder if I just need to run this now?

Code:

dconf reset -f /

scasey · 10-28-2019, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

Code:

dconf list /org/mate/panel/objects/

Code:

object-2/
notification-area/
object-1/
object-10/
object-0/
object-3/

I wonder if I just need to run this now?

Code:

dconf reset -f /

I have no idea. I'd never heard of dconf until this thread...shades of the Windows Registry...

The trailing slashes means there's more contained in each of those DIRs. Keep drilling down.

linustalman · 10-28-2019, 03:12 PM

I tried the xfce4-panel package in MATE -- the clock with seconds moves on that also. What the hell?

scasey · 10-28-2019, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

I tried the xfce4-panel package in MATE -- the clock with seconds moves on that also. What the hell?

I still think that's because of the variable-width font, as ondoho suggested way back.
I have no idea where that's set or how to change it, but it's apparently "systemic" on your 'puter, so that no matter what you use, you'll see that. I don't, but the font there appears to be fixed-width on my box.

linustalman · 10-28-2019, 03:39 PM

In 'Appearance Preferences' >> Font tab >> Changing the 'Application Font' to something else stops the clock from moving.

I just wish I could have the date show before the month.

scasey · 10-28-2019, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

In 'Appearance Preferences' >> Font tab >> Changing the 'Application Font' to something else stops the clock from moving.

I just wish I could have the date show before the month.

So it was the font setting...+1 for ondoho!

You just need to keep looking with dconf for the place the custom format is stored and change it. When I found it on my system, it was just '' before I changed it, so you may have to experiment some.

I was just looking at the graphical program. Much easier to use than the command line. Still reeks of the Registry, tho.

linustalman · 10-28-2019, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

So it was the font setting...+1 for ondoho!

You just need to keep looking with dconf for the place the custom format is stored and change it. When I found it on my system, it was just '' before I changed it, so you may have to experiment some.

I was just looking at the graphical program. Much easier to use than the command line. Still reeks of the Registry, tho.

Kudos to ondoho.

scasey · 10-28-2019, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

Kudos to ondoho.

You could use the instructions in my sig to acknowledge his posts in #8 and #11 where he suggested using a monospaced font.

And you could use the thread tools to mark the thread SOLVED, if you think it is solved.

ondoho · 10-30-2019, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

In 'Appearance Preferences' >> Font tab >> Changing the 'Application Font' to something else stops the clock from moving.

Doesn't that change the font for the whole system??? Probably not what you wanted.

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

I tried the xfce4-panel package in MATE -- the clock with seconds moves on that also. What the hell?

Now I remembered something - in xfce-panel's clock you can use pango markup to style the text clock.
Maybe in MATE-panel, too?
try this:

Code:

<span font="monospace">%a %b %e %H:%M:%S</span>

hydrurga · 10-30-2019, 07:48 PM

This *may* help you, when modified for your system.

On my Mint 19.2 MATE system, I make my clock larger and bolder using the following technique:

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0
xed ~/.themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

@import url("/usr/share/themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0/gtk.css");
#clock-applet-button {
  font-size: 140%;
  font-weight: bold;
}

This is of course theme-dependent. You could try something similar with the theme that you are using but using a font-family CSS attribute to select a monospaced font.

Run sudo pkill mate-panel to immediately update the panel when you have made modifications to the theme file in question.

ondoho · 10-31-2019, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrurga

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0
xed ~/.themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

@import url("/usr/share/themes/Mint-X/gtk-3.0/gtk.css");
#clock-applet-button {
  font-size: 140%;
  font-weight: bold;
}

This is of course theme-dependent.

I bet you could make that theme independent by adding it to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css instead, that is just these lines:

Code:

#clock-applet-button {
  font-size: 140%;
  font-weight: bold;
}

Quote:

Run sudo pkill mate-panel to immediately update the panel when you have made modifications to the theme file in question.

There shouldn't be any need for superuser privileges here. Don't sudo when you don't have to.

hydrurga · 10-31-2019, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

There shouldn't be any need for superuser privileges here. Don't sudo when you don't have to.

Good shout.

linustalman · 11-02-2019, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

You could use the instructions in my sig to acknowledge his posts in #8 and #11 where he suggested using a monospaced font.

And you could use the thread tools to mark the thread SOLVED, if you think it is solved.

Done on both.

I will see if I can just change the clock font only and keep the system font as default before marking as solved.

linustalman · 11-02-2019, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

I bet you could make that theme independent by adding it to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css instead, that is just these lines:

Code:

#clock-applet-button {
  font-size: 140%;
  font-weight: bold;
}

There shouldn't be any need for superuser privileges here. Don't sudo when you don't have to.

Hi ondoho. I tried that. I love the larger bold font in the panel. However, the clock is moving again (I reloaded the MATE panel).