Jaimos F Skriletz <jai...@diamond.boisestate.edu> writes: > On 10/18/2012 09:47 AM, Roger Campbell wrote: >> >> Some where things went bad and I was unable to set the background >> and the "date& time" tool any more. I can bring the tool up but I >> can not unlock the tool. >> >> >> I still can not unlock the "date and time" tool. The error in >> ~/.xsession-errors is : >> >> (gnome-control-center:2202): Gtk-WARNING **: Error acquiring \ >> permission: Failed to acquire permission for action-id \ >> org.gnome.controlcenter.datetime.configure >> > > It appears that you are trying to use the gnome date/time tool. Not sure > if you have some policykit or issue with that but are you running a > gnome pannel in fvwm? Fvwm does not come with a date/time tool. So > support for that tool is not what this mailing list is for. So the issue > you are having is with the gnome tool you are trying to use. > > My suggestion would be to use a far simpler tool such as FvwmScript > (which getts the output of date from the cli), xclock, or many other > simple clocks. You can then choose run this clock as its own window and > position it somewhere or swallow it into a pannel such as FvwmButtons.
Dclock addict here. Just like the big hours/minutes and the smaller day of week/date. dclock -geometry 140x75-2+2 -date '%W %m %d %Y' -fg green -bg black -fn 6x13bold -- Dan Espen
