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hi, I installed the release 0.15.3 but I have the same problem. I have to rewrite these lines:

[tweakr-profile-widget.desktop]
X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-menu/tweakr-profile-widget.desktop
X-Status-Area-Position=18
X-Status-Menu-Position=20

[wifi-switcher.desktop]
X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-menu/wifi-switcher.desktop
X-Status-Area-Position=18
X-Status-Menu-Position=21

[simple-brightness-applet.desktop]
X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-menu/simple-brightness-applet.desktop
X-Status-Area-Position=18
X-Status-Menu-Position=22

[quick-launch-sb.desktop]
X-Desktop-File=/usr/share/applications/hildon-status-menu/quick-launch-sb.desktop
X-Status-Area-Position=18
X-Status-Menu-Position=23

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Well, I am not really a Debian guy, i.e., I use the whole dpkg stuff to build my packages, which seems to work out quite well for the time being, but I am far from being in expert with respect to Debian packaging.
Still, I suspect this to be normal behavior.

I think at the time you performed the update the prerm script of the old version, which still contained the bug, had been used.
Hence, you experience this issue.
But since you now have the new version installed, with the fixed prerm script, from now on this problem should not occur anymore.

Edit:
With respect to all the issues and requests reported recently: I am currently very very busy.
So I cannot invest that much, if any, time into this right now.
Though, I think all this stuff will be taken care of sooner or (most probably) later.

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That clock type is called "Decimal Clock".

If you select Decimal Clock, you get a digital clock like the original, but with more options like different fonts, colors, optional seconds display, etc.

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Love the binary clock!
Although, I did think the AM/PM indicator was broke but turns out I read the clock as 12 when it was really 11. Maybe I should stick with standard digital :D

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Hmm. Is it just me or is the next alarm broken? I made an alarm for 10:35 and the alarm shows it as 22:35. I enabled am/pm and it's shown as 10:35pm instead of 10:35am.

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I also noticed the same thing like rantom did. Anyone will fix it ?

As there is that great auto-rotation patch inside the CSSU, I really really hope you could implement an extra setting for portrait clock. (just like clock per desktop)

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I can't reproduce your issue here.
This is what I tried:
Select "AlarmDisplayClock" as clock style.
Set alarm to 10:35.

Result:
Alarm time is displayed as "10:35" or "10:35 AM" respectively.

What are your steps for reproducing this issue?
Do you have multiple alarms set?

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That's the way that I did it. Could it be a timezone bug since I'm experiencing it here in Finland and another poster from German is also experiencing it? And no, I have only one, repeating alarm (Mon/Wed/Thu) set up. Also, making a new one and removing/disabling the old one didn't help, hours and AM/PM-stamps are still wrong.

I also encountered a new bug, which shows me 10:35 ip in lock-screen instead of 10:35 pm when the 12 hour clock is enabled and systems own one (Date and Time Settings, untick 24 hour clock) is disabled. I got rid of the latter bug (for now) once I re-enabled the 24 hour clock from DaT-settings and disabled the 12 hour clock from the Advanced Clock Plugin-settings.

I've attached some screenshots. Is there any logs that I could paste here?

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http://i610.photobucket.com/albums/t...ent-OAHZRV.png

i have change to qosmio flip clock but only blank image appeared...how to fix it...i did :

but fail

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Have never been able to get the decimal clock to work for this. Binary works fine but decimal is just a blank square.

I run CSSU now but no joy.

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problem solved....! i missed am/pm images....heeeeeeeeeeee

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where to place those icons....????

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Just an update : I re-installed this application and I'm still stuck with the bug, that I reported earlier on in this thread. I'll consider adding it to the Garage tomorrow/today.

(The bug : current hour is displayed instead of alarms hour in alarm-field. This also causes the clock to show PM instead of AM, if using 12 hour mode and the alarm is set to e.g. 10:20 AM.

Another, related bug. Enabling the 12 hour mode also causes the lock screen to show after the time ip instead of e.g. 9:37 pm [9:37 ip], if systems own 24 hour clock is disabled).

EDIT: Done.

#6835 Hour of next alarm is replaced with the current one
#6836 AM/PM is replaced with ip if system's own 24 hour clock is disabled

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Thanks for the bug reports.
Unfortunately it seems like I won't find time to work on this in the near future.

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any one working on this when wonko is gone?
stilllooking for those bug fixes and a special portraitmode clock option...

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I will try to contribute in Wonko's place while he's gone, but don't get your hopes up, my time is just as limited, and split between many projects.

However, I have finally gotten this to the point that I can semi-announce (full announcement thread when I'm sure it works as desired and can package it): Monitor Clock. This is that clock style I've been working on from almost the day this Advanced Clock Plugin came out.
Attachment 18627

It features:

• Technically support for all the features the other clock styles have - 12/24 hour modes, show/hide seconds, fill/stroke for the numbers/letters, and I think text resizing and text recoloring should work too, but the catch is there isn't as much room for the text for you to make it bigger. It supports the Klingon fonts and the .png pictures for numbers as well.
• cpu/mem applet improved clone. Clone in that it shows the same info as cpu/mem applet, improved because it shows the info more accurately and gives a little bit more info for mem usage. Namely, unlike CPU/MEM applet, this shows five bars instead of four. This lets it use even 20% intervals for determining when to show the next bar, so for example for CPU it uses ≤20%, ≤40%, ≤60%, ≤80%, and =100%, to show bars 1-5 respectively. CPU/MEM applet uses somewhat odd numbers which do make sense, but if you want to know slightly more accurately how much CPU or RAM you're using, it's more intuitively accurate then trying to remember cpu/mem's numbers, in my opinion. My clone also shows both the "actually" used memory (as the cpu/mem applet), AND the truly used memory including buffers. It shows gray bars for the true memory use, and white ones that override the gray ones for actual non-buffer/cache memory.
• WiFi Signal bars. Effectively a clone of the WiFi Signal Applet, except it uses 5 bars to show the ten different signal strengths. E.G. 1 = one gray bar, 2 = bar becomes white, 3 = second gray bar above that white one, etc. This spot also shows a gray X when the wifi driver is completely unloaded, and shows a white X when the wifi driver is loaded but not connected (although right now it can also show a white X when it is still technically connected but has horribly bad signal, to the point where it detects it as 0% signal.
  And the best part in my opinion:
• Colored bars to show how much data (in packets) is being received and sent over each interface (wifi [wlan0 and mon0], phone [there are separate interfaces for basic telephony like sending sms and actual gprs internet; this shows both separately], usb, bluetooth, and the "local" interface). This will also show packets received in monitor mode by the wifi card, and if you have the right version of lxp's driver, it will show the packets sent when injecting too (the normal bleeding edge wifi driver lxp released didn't actually count injected packets as sent - I asked lxp about it and he sent me a slightly modified one that did, though).

This last one I'm hoping to have This last one I'm hoping to have people test and report back on, because I'm not able to test the GPRS one or the bluetooth one effectively, as I have neither 3G/internet data on my plan, nor have been able to set up bluetooth PAN or DUN to test bluetooth interfaces. This is also really the only thing I have left to iron out before I feel up to releasing this to Extras-Devel. Though ideally I would still love it if someone knew how to get raw I/O data over these hardware peices, instead of the interfaces over them, since there's a decent amount of data over them that this can't pick up.

Now this clock style is pretty heavy as far as clock styles go, but as near as I can tell this does not slow down the N900 or impact performance - except for at boot where - especially if combined with other status menu python programs like Advanced Power Monitor or whatever, status menu takes a noticeably longer time to load.

Now screenies:
Just showing a comparison between cpu/mem and wifi applets along with my clock style. After my reflash a couple days ago, I haven't bothere to reinstall either of those applets because my clock style replaced them, but I had kept them for the purposes of making sure mine were working right and so that I could take screen shots to show both at once (screenies are from before reflash) - mainly you see the general similarity in cpu/mem, albeit with different bar amounts because of the difference in total bars and which values are assigned to which (also shows wifi signal bars and wifi signal applet at 7):
Attachment 18628
This shows the telephony receiving some data (you'll notice this regularly if you're using your N900 as a phone - expecially when your phone is about to receive a text message or just hopped to a new radio tower. It also shows one increment of the gray/white bar at the bottom - this is the bar of the mon0 interface. In this case my wifi was in monitor mode and was having a lull in local network activity. I was also not using the wifi's normal wlan0 interface for anything, which is why there are no green bars. If you use the aircrack-ng in the repos or the FruMMaGe (however his name's written) aircrack-gui, your wifi card will use monitor mode on the wlan0 interface, and you'll see the green bars acting up. Also, the X in the above version is slightly higher up than in that screen shot.
Attachment 18630
These two just show a good idea of typical semi-heavy internet usage and how that will show up - both receiving and sending bars being relatively long, the receiving slightly longer than the sending. The page loading example is a bit misleading since the bars tend to jump up and down a decent amount during the loading of a page, depending on how much has loaded and how much is left.
Attachment 18629
Attachment 18631

And tmo won't let me upload more screens at once, so I'll leave it at that. Couple things - a few times, and I can't quite figure out what causes it, this clock style gets twitchy (cpu bar is the main place I've seen this, it jumps from whatever it's actually at to some higher value and back down, repeatedly), and once I had one of the data traffic bars freeze. However, this only seems to happen rarely, and since my reflash it hasn't occured. I suspect it has something to do with different programs trying to read from the same files in /proc or /sys or /dev or whatever. Other than that tiny glitch though, cpu/mem and wifi signal applets and this coexist - not that you need them with this, but if for some reason you feel like having both, it won't break. IF you suspect yours is doing that, simply toggling the lock switch to turn the screen on/off resets it back to normal.

Comments, suggestions, feedback?

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Oh, right, the .tar above is packed with the right folder structure already, so just unpack it to / and it'll put itself into /usr/lib/advanced-clock-plugin/clocks/.

Also, colors for the traffic bars:
Yellow vertical bar for the local interface is only one bar, since local send and local receive are always the same thing - it's next to the cpu/mem clone, appears just right of it.

The rest of the bars are in the space right of that under the numbers, where green is wlan0, red is phonet0 (the interface over which sms messages come in and the one that spikes up on the receive side when the N900 switches towers/acquires signal after having lost it), purple is gprs0 (3G / whatever G internet goes through this), blue is bluetooth, and orange is usb. White/grayish is the mon0 interface if you have that up and running.

Bars from the left to the right are the sending, bars from right to left are receiving. When both are maxed out they touch in the middle. Each (except local) has 7 boxes/levels, which are slightly dimmer colored the lower down in value that part of the bar is show at (this results in what without a closer look looks like one small smoothly brightening bar. Most use the same packet cut-offs to determine when to show the next bar, although I did drastically lower ones for phonet0 because the amount of packets over that interface at any given time is rather small. (For reference the other bars currently all show their 7th part of the bar at ≥1000 packets per second; the red phonet0 one cuts off at ≥20 packets per second.)

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I am assuming MT this requires the advanced plugin to be installed first?

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Yes, this requires Advanced Clock Plugin. If there's demand theoretically it could be made into a stand-alone package derived from Wonko's Advanced Clock Plugin, using a more stripped down version of the Advanced Clock, but I personally don't have the time to undertake that right now, and I would feel a bit wrong doing that on top of Wonko's work unless there really was heavy demand for it. (And if I did, I might as well try to recode said stripped version in C instead of python for the efficiency, faster status-menu-load at boot, etc.)

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hi,

I have made a "slim" (28x36 pixels instead of 36x36) version of Q_White_Clock images found in this thread, but the images seems to be not recognized by ACP!?

Can anyone help me what is wrong with them?
I attached the tar archive.

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Hi Mentalist Traceur,

I wanted to try your MonitorClock but after selecting the MonitorClock in the ACP settings and pressing Done, the clock style doesn't change!?

Do I need something else to use your style?

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After untarring it / putting it in the folder, did you restart the status menu? "killall hildon-status-menu" in X-Term (doesn't have to be root, user can do it too) should do it.

If that's not working, perhaps check your /usr/lib/advanced-clock-plugin/clocks folder? (/usr/lib/advanced-clock-plugin symlinks to /opt/maemo/usr/lib/advanced-clock-plugin, so you can check /opt/maemo/usr/lib/advanced-clock-plugin/clocks too, though if your symlink isn't broken, it shouldn't matter which one you check.)

You can also post the output of and (I say both in case the symlink got undone at some point for whatever reason.)

Also, what are your clock settings? It's possible you have some combination of settings that I never tested, that crashes it.

Anyone else having this problem?

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hi,

restarting the status menu was the solution!

but the clock is a bit too small for me;)
how about a style with only the cpu and mem bars, but draw them horizontally under the clock, so the clock can be taller!
and the cpu/mem bars would be also wider (as wide as the time string)...

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That's actually a rather neat idea. I spent all this time following my vision of the clock style I wanted, but now that I can make it, I wouldn't mind doing different variants like you suggested. Give me a day or two and I should have a spare moment to make what you suggested.

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cool, nice that you like my idea!

I thought about doing it myself, but as I'm not familiar with python, only with some Oberon and C programming on MorphOS/Amiga it would take definitly longer then two days;)

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Hi.
Still doesn't work for me...
When I check use images for drawing digits
and select the image Q_Brushed Aluminium-Clock, from Qosmio, the clock simply not appear...
Trouble with Theme Customizer?

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First thing's first: Did you restart the status menu or reboot since copying those images? Second: If there is some other problem, it wouldn't be from Theme Customizer as far as I know - theme customizer doesn't touch the folders Advanced Clock Plugin uses, or any of the binaries/packages it works with.

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Really wanted this to work, but like anything other than the binary clock - when I select it I see nothing but a single blank spot.

Sigh.

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Can you list your Advanced Clock Plugin settings exactly? Oh, also, are you using the one from Extras, Extras-Testing, or Extras Devel? (I'm always on Devel, so I don't exactly remember what the versions lower down might be, or if it's even made it that far.)

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Bitrocky: The clock style you suggested is effectively almosy done in it's basic form, however, I decided to make it a bit better, so it'll take a tad longer - namely, I'm making it so that the cpu/mem bars resize with the size of the numbers/text of the clock.

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wow!
Yes, the resizing of the bars would be pretty cool!
Thanks in advance!

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I'm not sure if you're still looking to modify this, but here's a modified DateTimeClock file that gets rid of the spaces.

Remove the .txt from the name and place in /opt/maemo/usr/lib/advanced-clock-plugin/clocks/
and kill the status bar.

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Yes, reboot after each try: impossible to make it work. May be wrong files?
Should I paste the files somewhere in my personnal theme?

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cevenn - no, the folder is correct - though I'd make sure your files actually got copied (Advanced Clock Plugin doesn't actually take any icons from your current theme, all of its images are in their own folders). Honestly, I don't know what the issue is.

Meanwhile, on a happier note: CpuMem Clock!
Attachment 18761
(Same process - unpack to the root directory / and it should put it into the right folder from there.) Restart hildon-status-menu or reboot to let it get loaded up, or else it won't show up.

As per bitrocky's idea: this is a clock style including just CPU and MEM bars under the time. The bars resize with the size changes of the clock - length-wise at least (height-wise they're always three pixels - the size of the CPUMEM Applet's bars).

Everything else is the same, except since they're now horizontal, RAM use is from right to left, CPU is from left to right. Even when full they never touch. To make it more obvious that the cpu bar maxed out, I made the fifth bar for the cpu graph red.

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MT this is what I get when I install this.

Open to ideas.

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If you have Advanced Clock Plugin installed already, I'm not sure what the issue is (do you have it installed from Extras, Testing, or Devel?) - if you don't have Advanced Clock Plugin installed, or you have it installed but Advanced Clock Plugin isn't working right normally, that's probably the issue...

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Are you trying to use them in the 12 hour mode? Coz they won't work with the sizes you have used.... Your just get a grey box..


Hope this helps

Kind Regards Qosmio

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I have it installed but as I have stated before I can only ever get the binary clock to work. Every other clock just gives a blank space

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Thanks, but... no way!:(

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_F...321-004706.png

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_F...321-004809.png

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_F...321-004820.png

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_F...321-004826.png

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_F...321-004803.png

Could someone give me again the files for Q_Brushed Aluminium-Clock?

Thanks!

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Thanks Mentalist for your CpuMemClock!

It works quite good, although I noticed that sometimes the cpu bar doesn't show the same value as cpumem applet, it "blinks" instead.
I'll try to find a reproducable case for this.

btw, I changed your clockstyle to just show the cpubar, because I don't even need the mem bar most of the times.

Here is a screenshot of my CpuClock and the archive: