SixedUp;350943 Wrote: > Rather than adding this to the 1000+ existing posts in the SDT announce > thread, I thought I'd separate this out into its own thread. When we > get the answer, hopefully it will be easier for others to find than > scanning that monster thread... and so: > > I'm running SDT in conjunction with the RSS feed reader under > SaverSwitcher, as my "off" screensaver. I'm using SDT purely as a > replacement for WeatherTime, which interacts badly with SaverSwitcher. > Since I like the display from WeatherTime, I'm trying to set up SDT to > look approximately the same. > > My Time/Weather format string is therefore set to: > > ICON ON, 3 LINE SECTION ON (line1: "Now %F" line2: "%Z" line3: "PRECIP > %x") and the remaining "large" 2 lines are set to line1: "%y %v" line2: > "%1 %2". > > The problem? > > No matter what I do (and over the last 2 or 3 days I've tried a lot) I > cannot get SDT to use anything other than long formats for the time and > date, which means that its too long for the display, and needs to be > scrolled, which means it scolls right over the top of the icon and > 3-line section. > > There seems to be no way to change those formats in the SDT > preferences. Changing them in the DateTime screensaver preferences > seemed to do nothing either. The only way I can get it to work is to > make my Squeezecenter general preferences for the long date be a very > short date indeed, which necessitates editing the server.prefs file by > hand, to set the date and time formats to values that are not provided > by the standard web configuration interface. > > Please, tell me I've somehow missed something, and that there is a > better answer than this?
Did you try hitting up and down on your remote? You might be displaying the long date mode. The date/time display settings are the ones used for formatting custom displays, are you sure you set them right for the specific player? Thanks -Greg -- GoCubs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53910 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
