RE: Clock on desktop

On my G4 800mhz PowerBook with Tiger (10.4.11) I'm able to go into System Preferences then Date and Time, choose digital and have an option to have the clock on my desktop and I REALLY like that. It shows up on the desktop as a small square with the month on top in small letters, the day of the month (4, for example) and then the day of the week in small letters on the bottom.
I can't find that option on myIntel Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz White 24" iMac with Leopard 10.5.1.
Does anyone know if that is a plugin of some kind or how to enable it?

Thanks but it isn't what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for a program that has a window about the size of an icon and text on the desktop that displays the time in the biggest font, then the month and day of the week. All that should be in one "window" which is moveable on the screen and not stuck on the menu bar.
SimpleFloatingClock seems to be the best so far ...

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Digital clock on desktop?

digital clock on desktop?

Verbs, man, Verbs!
Complete sentences, in English or your native language!
What computer? What Mac OS X?
What in the world are you talking about digital clocks? you have some? Yours is missing? They are spilling out the air vents by the thousands, What?

Calculator and clock on desktop

I want to add world clock and calculator which is their in dashboard to my desktop how to do?

I wasn't at the computer with Tiger when I posted before so did not post the exact path. Specifically, you can change common key assignments by going to System Preferences > Keyboard and Mouse and select the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab. The instruction are on that pane.
Even after changing the settings, remember--to get F12 to eject the optical drive, sometimes you need to press and hold F12. Varies with keyboard, OS. and computer model. On my G4 tower, a "normal" keystroke is not enough. Takes a good half-second or more to respond, but respond it does!
How are you liking the Matias keyboard in general? I've heard good things about some of their models.

Dashboard Clock on Desktop

I have a strange problem. An annoyance really. The clock widget that once was on my dashboard has migrated to my desktop. It is always on top, often in the way and I can't get rid of it. I can click the little 'i' and change the city and it will adjust to that time, but I am perfectly happy to hit F12 first and use it there. Can anyone suggest how I can banish this thing back to where it belongs?

Click on the widget, hold down the option key on your keyboard and move your mouse around the inside of the widget -- you should see an X appear in the top left corner of the widget. Clicking on the X will remove the widget from your desktop.

R6950 Twin Frozr II - Desktop/Idle Artifacting

The problem is simple... when my card hits idle clocks, my desktop starts getting tiny little squares and artifacts, more or less everywhere. When browsing the web or watching Video it also stays at Idle clocks instead of going to 2D(can't get around this for some reason).
There is no problem with anything at actual 2D, 3D clocks. Tried maxing all of windows' "power saving" settings, various drivers, ccc installed, not installed. tried hardware profiles in msi afterburner... but again, the problem is at idle clocks, and no utility i've found besides flashing lets me increase my idle clocks, if that is the problem.
Also, I have not overclocked anything nor done any flashing since the card is 5 days old and this started on day 2, and I also tried the card in a different computer with the same results.
and I run at 1920x1080 on a 24" LG
my guess is that the low idle clocks of 250gpu and 150mem(x4 multiplier?, so 600 actual?) are what is causing this, or maybe the voltage that is tied to the idle clock is too low(doesnt sound reasonable though) which is at .9 when at idle.
I'm obviously biased towards the idle clock issue, this is due to hours over hours of hardcore google research :( which has pointed me in that direction.
I haven't flashed anything yet because I haven't figured out if raising my so called "power saving" idle clock in my Vbios will void my MSI 3 year warranty. so if anyone has an answer to that? or if anyone is familiar with the problem I'm having and knows how to fix it, PLZ tell me what to do before i give up and either send it back to Newegg or RMA it to MSI for a replacement. If it does end up going back to the EGG... I'm totally bricking this son of a B first.. it had a scratch on the top of the HS cover out of the box, .
p.s. its not the OC version or it would be in the subject line. Cayman GPU. Release: Dec 15, 2010 Bios: 013.011.000.001.000000
ohh yeah... i'm running Windows 7 pro x64 on all my rigs, if that carries any relevance at all.
if you want any GPU-Z screens, screens of artifacts happening, or any additional information just feel free to ask.
THANK YOU.

Turns out the card is indeed defective. I just wish it would of been D.O.A. out of the box instead of D.O.6 days later...
Artifacting had slowly increased since it started, so I didn't quite pick up on it until it was like holy you know what, there's artifacts and polys everywhere, I couldn't even read text in my browser at that point.
Blew my mind when I installed my old 1 gig 460 cyclone in my new build and it outbenched the 2gig 6950 in 3dmark 11 on the Xtreme benchmark. I just didn't notice how poorly the 6950 was performing even at 2D/3D clocks since my old system bottlenecked the heck out of the 460.
Thanks for your reply svet.
I do in fact use that method to remove drivers, its the only effective way of really getting everything off your pc in my opinion. And yes, tried all drivers, both MSI and ATI site versions, too bad it ended being a waste of much of my weekend.
Either way. Case closed. The Egg offered a full refund and free return shipping. Taking them up on that.
Thanks again.

[SOLVED] Lost customized KDE Desktop config - reverted to default

I'm using KDE 4.3.1. I lost the customized configuration of my Desktop, i.e. wallpaper image, launchers for widgets and applications that were present in the bottom panel and in the system tray, clock configuration, Desktop icons, etc. All of this reverted to the default configuration. This is the second or third time this has happened in the last few months, and it happens out of the blue, i.e. from one startup to the next. Obviously, KDE upon starting up can't find the config file(s) in which my custom settings are stored and which it was able to access before without any problem.
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1. What could have brought this on, i.e. why does KDE suddenly fail to load my custom Desktop config? Could there be a problem in accessing the appropriate HDD sector, i.e. possibly imminent HDD failure?
2. What is/are the file(s) in which my custom Desktop settings are stored? Is there an automatic backup of these file(s) from which I could easily restore my previous custom settings? Or could I simply reload the appropriate file(s) from my rsync backup of my home dir that I did just a week ago?
Last edited by RobF (2009-11-04 11:22:40)

FrozenFox wrote:As far as imminent hd failure goes, you should take a look at smartctl's output for your disk. However, take it with a grain of salt because it's not a definite indicator of disk health or lack thereof, but should be considered as a general report of such as determined by the disk itself. Also, some filesystems have problems with incorrect shutdowns eating files. During any of these times kde screwed up, did you shut down by force in any way (or did the power go out?) or did the shut-down process proceed normally? What filesystem do you use for /home ?
Thanks for your comment. I run smartctl occasionally, mostly to check the temperature of the HDD in my laptop. Ran it again just now but the drive passed. The only thing that looks rather high is the load cycle count (53323) but I remember reading some time ago when I was alarmed by this that smartctl sometimes puts out anomalously high values for this parameter that don't mean anything.
So, I don't really think my internal HDD is sick. No other file reading failures have occurrred recently. The 2 or 3 times this particular problem had occurred recently, I'd restarted or shutdown the system in the standard way and restart/shutdown proceeded normally. The filesystem for /home is reiserfs3 which is a journaling filesystem.
I'm not much concerned about this anymore - now that I know how to restore my custom Desktop config files, it's no big deal if this happens again. If it's some flakyness in KDE 4.3, it might be gone in future releases.

[MOVED] H55 chipset and KMS with HDMI/VGA

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The problem is the monitor comes up with screen with green background and white text starting from bios all the way through boot to login. I have attempted changing the colorspace of the monitor from RGB to YPbPr, but it simply changes the color of the background. Any clues on how to fix this?
New: I've bought a new hdmi capable monitor. However, with KMS enabled using HDMI->HDMI, the monitor receives no signal, while the HDMI->DVI still has the color problems. With KMS off, HDMI->HDMI works and HDMI->DVI has no signal. So now it appears the KMS is the real issue.
Note: This discussion has been moved to the intel-gfx mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/i … 08315.html
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It's likely that the laptop's attempting to output audio through the HDMI as well. Have you tried this? Right-click on the speaker icon in the notification area near the clock (in Desktop mode) and select "Playback devices." What's listed there, and what has the green check mark? Try selecting your speakers and clicking "Set Default."
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Problems with HDMI Sound (Special case)

My problem is that when I connect my Macbook Pro to the TV through HDMI the sound will only come out through the actual TV and not to the audio system that goes with it like I would like.
When I connect my boyfriends Windows laptop (in the same exact way) the problem is solved, the audio comes out through the sound sistem bar and not the crappy TV integrated speakers.
I hope I made my point clear. I can make the sound come out from the macbook but it goes to the tv and not the sound system attached bar. When my macbook is connected the audio bar switches of automatically. The tv is a Sony Bravia and the Bar is also a Sony (attached to the tv through HDMI).
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It's likely that the laptop's attempting to output audio through the HDMI as well. Have you tried this? Right-click on the speaker icon in the notification area near the clock (in Desktop mode) and select "Playback devices." What's listed there, and what has the green check mark? Try selecting your speakers and clicking "Set Default."
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When I connect the laptop to the TV no sound get out. I put HDMI sound as standard but still nothing. I don't know if it's something wrong with the driver for the sound. Please advise.
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- Peter

Clearing rootfs space

My N900 has started to get sluggish over the past few days and i'm thinking it's something to do with being at 71% roofs. I have transition control and OC to 900/1GHz. I had black plastic theme but it kept crashing my phone, so it's not a case of just using makeshift fixes to be faster.
I've also done the apt-get clean, remove etc, but it didn't clear anything.
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airport
alarmed
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android theme
angry birds (1, 2 + 3)
AP news desktop widget
AP news installer
app search widget
banderol
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bluezwitch
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coaster ruse 3d
conky
connectnow internet connection switch
converter
coreutils-gnu
countdown timer
crochik geePS
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desktop command execution widget
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desktop+
digiclockwidget
documents to go installer
drnoksnes
droid fonts
dropn900
easypark
enhanced linux kernel for power users (v37)
exhanced linux kernel for power users (settings)
extended call log
extra decoders support
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eyes widget
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facebook installer
facebook sharing plugin
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faster application manager
feedingit rss reader
feedservice-plugin-fb-common
feedservice2
filebox
firefox
flashlight
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foreca installer
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frontview900
fteller
gigfinder
googleimages for touchsearch
hangman
headphone daemon
healthcheck
here and now
hermes
iconset contour for OMWeather
black winter day theme
flame theme
imdb for touchsearch
insinctiv
kmplayer
last.fm scrobbler
leafpad
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libqtm-bearer
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macuco
maemo 5
maenotify
mappero
mastory
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mediabox media center
modified-hildon-desktop
morphoquickpanorama
movie finder
movie schedule
mplayer movie player
msn protocol plugin for conversations and contacts
mypaint
n900-fmrx-enabler
ncalc
now playing notifications
ogg support
omweather
omweather database for weather.com
openssh client
openssh client and server
openssh server
opera mobile
password safe
personal photo frame
picodrive
pidgin extra protocols (bonjour and sametime)
pidgin internet messenger
pidgin protocols plugin for conversations and contacts
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qtirreco
qtranslate
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tar-gnu
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them bloody ducks
theme customizer
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/t5/Maemo-Devices/whats-apps-take-a-lots-of-roofts/td-p/715374
quoting from cpitchford :
1) Open these links on your phone
http://chris.intrepid.cx/N900/debug.sh
http://chris.intrepid.cx/N900/diskspace.sh
Choose to save the file and save them into the Documents folder on your phone
2) open an x terminal and run
sh MyDocs/.documents/debug.sh
Got and get a cup of coffee / read a book / have a snooze.. it'll take about 30 minutes or more..
3) when it is done run this command in the same x terminal:
sh MyDocs/.documents/diskspace.sh MyDocs/debug.tgz
It'll show you a table of values.. The first column is the package, the second column is how much root space that package is using (the third column is how much EMMC space the package is using)
you will see what installed apps/themes are taking all the roofts, and delete them .
and whhy are you still on power 37? 42 is in the extras .
Reality is wrong....dreams are for real... 2pac .
don't forget to hit that green kudos

Hard Disc Test: FAILED

Hello,
i have an HP Pavilion dv6 in which when it boots it stays on the HP logo for maybe 10 minutes and then it gives an error about the HD. When I run diagnostics test I get the following:
Short DST: FAILED
Failure ID: 0SJCGM-54D781-XD003G-60XJ03
Hard Disc 1
Hard Disc Test: FAILED

Well you've to replace the battery if that fails.
Do a hard reset first: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01684768
Test by HP battery test.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00821536
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WARNING: Do not remove the Microsoft AC Adapter driver or any other ACPI compliant driver.
Shut down system after uninstallation finishes.
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Immediately press F10 to enter BIOS setup utility,
In the BIOS Setup utility, select the Exit tab.
Select Load Setup Defaults.
Select Save Changes and Exit (pressing F5 and the Enter key will also load the Setup Defaults).
Press Esc and then Enter to exit Setup.
Wait for Windows to load completely
Else, power on with both AC plugged & battery inserted & proceed.
Check.
Regards
Visruth
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Setting BB Pearl Flip clock to network? Desktop Manager asks for an update to languages.

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My Desktop Manager keeps asking, when launched, an update to the same Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish languages. How do I turn it off?

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Is it possible to have either the clock or iCal on the desktop as a widget? Kindly advise. Thank you!

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2492
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I maintain two iMacs in a retail environment - the accounts are managed and the users can only access some basic functions of the OS plus our POS software. They can't install apps or adjust settings so there's little they can do theoretically. All software is either in the OS or is made for 10.6 (MS Office on one machine, Salon Transcripts on both)
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Unlike SideStepSociety, I've never +wiped an HD and reinstalled from scratch+, finding it to be total waste of time. I've beta-tested every OS upgrade from Panther through Snow Leopard and always just upgrade them, ensuring that I have tested bootable backups/clones to revert back to. The only time I install the OS onto an empty volume is to test that the setup assistant does its magic by migrating from the previously good OS. Once I ensure that the procedure works, I wipe the HD, put a clone onto it, and upgrade it.
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