How to display custom formatted clock in top bar on multiple displays in Ubuntu 18.04?
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I have a pretty specific problem, that I have had no luck trying to find a working solution to. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 docked using 2 external monitors resulting in 3 screens. I want to have my top bar on all 3 screens to easily look up on the current screen to see the time. I enable this using the Multi Monitors Add-On Gnome extension. I am running Ubuntu in English, but set to Swedish formats. This makes for a very ugly and incorrect date format in the top bar.
This is pretty much English format with Swedish names for days and months. On a side note, this localization "bug" has been fixed and is ready for an upcoming gnome release.
My main issue is that I want to change the format of the date displayed to something like:
I can easily get this format using any of the many clock formatting Gnome extensions (Clock Override, Datetime Format). However, none of these extensions work with my Multi Monitors Add-On, leaving me with a nicely formatted clock on the main monitor, but ugly formatted clocks on the other two screens. I have tried getting the developers of these addons to collaborate, but apparently dependencies between gnome extensions is "hell".
I have also tried editing the locale files directly, both the en_US and sv_SE. Specifically the LC_TIME d_t_fmt format for date and time strings, but this seems to have no impact on the clock format.
In a last attempt I also unpacked the libgnome-shell.so file located in /usr/lib/gnome-shell/ to try and edit the JavaScript files used to display the clock, using this answer. I had a look in dateMenu.js and calendar.js and changed most of the format strings that I could find to my desired format %Y-%m-%d. I then ran GNOME_SHELL_JS=$HOME/gnome-shell-js gnome-shell --replace, but again it seemed to have no effect. To be fair, I am in deep waters here and could definitely have failed in my attempts. As such, the solution could still be in this method.
Have anyone had any experience with a situation like this? Changing the format of date and time displayed on multiple monitors using Ubuntu 18.04? Feel free to try what I have tried already as I can certainly have missed something that could have made it work.
multiple-monitors gnome-shell time clock top-bar
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I have a pretty specific problem, that I have had no luck trying to find a working solution to. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 docked using 2 external monitors resulting in 3 screens. I want to have my top bar on all 3 screens to easily look up on the current screen to see the time. I enable this using the Multi Monitors Add-On Gnome extension. I am running Ubuntu in English, but set to Swedish formats. This makes for a very ugly and incorrect date format in the top bar.
This is pretty much English format with Swedish names for days and months. On a side note, this localization "bug" has been fixed and is ready for an upcoming gnome release.
My main issue is that I want to change the format of the date displayed to something like:
I can easily get this format using any of the many clock formatting Gnome extensions (Clock Override, Datetime Format). However, none of these extensions work with my Multi Monitors Add-On, leaving me with a nicely formatted clock on the main monitor, but ugly formatted clocks on the other two screens. I have tried getting the developers of these addons to collaborate, but apparently dependencies between gnome extensions is "hell".
I have also tried editing the locale files directly, both the en_US and sv_SE. Specifically the LC_TIME d_t_fmt format for date and time strings, but this seems to have no impact on the clock format.
In a last attempt I also unpacked the libgnome-shell.so file located in /usr/lib/gnome-shell/ to try and edit the JavaScript files used to display the clock, using this answer. I had a look in dateMenu.js and calendar.js and changed most of the format strings that I could find to my desired format %Y-%m-%d. I then ran GNOME_SHELL_JS=$HOME/gnome-shell-js gnome-shell --replace, but again it seemed to have no effect. To be fair, I am in deep waters here and could definitely have failed in my attempts. As such, the solution could still be in this method.
Have anyone had any experience with a situation like this? Changing the format of date and time displayed on multiple monitors using Ubuntu 18.04? Feel free to try what I have tried already as I can certainly have missed something that could have made it work.
multiple-monitors gnome-shell time clock top-bar
asked Nov 26 at 15:14
Skillzore
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I now believe the solution could be in editing thedateMenu.jsfile inlibgnome-shell.sosince the Clock Override extension seem to be overriding some of dateMenu's children during runtime. I will try to look into this more, but help would be appreciated since my gnome-shell and JavaScript skills are somewhat subpar.
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I have a pretty specific problem, that I have had no luck trying to find a working solution to. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 docked using 2 external monitors resulting in 3 screens. I want to have my top bar on all 3 screens to easily look up on the current screen to see the time. I enable this using the Multi Monitors Add-On Gnome extension. I am running Ubuntu in English, but set to Swedish formats. This makes for a very ugly and incorrect date format in the top bar.
This is pretty much English format with Swedish names for days and months. On a side note, this localization "bug" has been fixed and is ready for an upcoming gnome release.
My main issue is that I want to change the format of the date displayed to something like:
I can easily get this format using any of the many clock formatting Gnome extensions (Clock Override, Datetime Format). However, none of these extensions work with my Multi Monitors Add-On, leaving me with a nicely formatted clock on the main monitor, but ugly formatted clocks on the other two screens. I have tried getting the developers of these addons to collaborate, but apparently dependencies between gnome extensions is "hell".
I have also tried editing the locale files directly, both the en_US and sv_SE. Specifically the LC_TIME d_t_fmt format for date and time strings, but this seems to have no impact on the clock format.
In a last attempt I also unpacked the libgnome-shell.so file located in /usr/lib/gnome-shell/ to try and edit the JavaScript files used to display the clock, using this answer. I had a look in dateMenu.js and calendar.js and changed most of the format strings that I could find to my desired format %Y-%m-%d. I then ran GNOME_SHELL_JS=$HOME/gnome-shell-js gnome-shell --replace, but again it seemed to have no effect. To be fair, I am in deep waters here and could definitely have failed in my attempts. As such, the solution could still be in this method.
Have anyone had any experience with a situation like this? Changing the format of date and time displayed on multiple monitors using Ubuntu 18.04? Feel free to try what I have tried already as I can certainly have missed something that could have made it work.
multiple-monitors gnome-shell time clock top-bar
asked Nov 26 at 15:14
Skillzore
134
I have a pretty specific problem, that I have had no luck trying to find a working solution to. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 docked using 2 external monitors resulting in 3 screens. I want to have my top bar on all 3 screens to easily look up on the current screen to see the time. I enable this using the Multi Monitors Add-On Gnome extension. I am running Ubuntu in English, but set to Swedish formats. This makes for a very ugly and incorrect date format in the top bar.
This is pretty much English format with Swedish names for days and months. On a side note, this localization "bug" has been fixed and is ready for an upcoming gnome release.
My main issue is that I want to change the format of the date displayed to something like:
I can easily get this format using any of the many clock formatting Gnome extensions (Clock Override, Datetime Format). However, none of these extensions work with my Multi Monitors Add-On, leaving me with a nicely formatted clock on the main monitor, but ugly formatted clocks on the other two screens. I have tried getting the developers of these addons to collaborate, but apparently dependencies between gnome extensions is "hell".
I have also tried editing the locale files directly, both the en_US and sv_SE. Specifically the LC_TIME d_t_fmt format for date and time strings, but this seems to have no impact on the clock format.
In a last attempt I also unpacked the libgnome-shell.so file located in /usr/lib/gnome-shell/ to try and edit the JavaScript files used to display the clock, using this answer. I had a look in dateMenu.js and calendar.js and changed most of the format strings that I could find to my desired format %Y-%m-%d. I then ran GNOME_SHELL_JS=$HOME/gnome-shell-js gnome-shell --replace, but again it seemed to have no effect. To be fair, I am in deep waters here and could definitely have failed in my attempts. As such, the solution could still be in this method.
Have anyone had any experience with a situation like this? Changing the format of date and time displayed on multiple monitors using Ubuntu 18.04? Feel free to try what I have tried already as I can certainly have missed something that could have made it work.
multiple-monitors gnome-shell time clock top-bar
multiple-monitors gnome-shell time clock top-bar
asked Nov 26 at 15:14
Skillzore
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asked Nov 26 at 15:14
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asked Nov 26 at 15:14
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asked Nov 26 at 15:14
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I now believe the solution could be in editing thedateMenu.jsfile inlibgnome-shell.sosince the Clock Override extension seem to be overriding some of dateMenu's children during runtime. I will try to look into this more, but help would be appreciated since my gnome-shell and JavaScript skills are somewhat subpar.
– Skillzore
Nov 27 at 9:09
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I now believe the solution could be in editing thedateMenu.jsfile inlibgnome-shell.sosince the Clock Override extension seem to be overriding some of dateMenu's children during runtime. I will try to look into this more, but help would be appreciated since my gnome-shell and JavaScript skills are somewhat subpar.
– Skillzore
Nov 27 at 9:09
I now believe the solution could be in editing the
dateMenu.js file in libgnome-shell.so since the Clock Override extension seem to be overriding some of dateMenu's children during runtime. I will try to look into this more, but help would be appreciated since my gnome-shell and JavaScript skills are somewhat subpar.– Skillzore
Nov 27 at 9:09
I now believe the solution could be in editing the
dateMenu.js file in libgnome-shell.so since the Clock Override extension seem to be overriding some of dateMenu's children during runtime. I will try to look into this more, but help would be appreciated since my gnome-shell and JavaScript skills are somewhat subpar.– Skillzore
Nov 27 at 9:09
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I now believe the solution could be in editing the
dateMenu.jsfile inlibgnome-shell.sosince the Clock Override extension seem to be overriding some of dateMenu's children during runtime. I will try to look into this more, but help would be appreciated since my gnome-shell and JavaScript skills are somewhat subpar.– Skillzore
Nov 27 at 9:09