12hr clock

From terminal:

sudo nano /home/user/.config/xfce4/panel/clock-1.rc

and change it to read:
military=false
ampm=true

then exit & save & reboot.

 

tried that saved file restarted and still on 24 hour time.

 

Same thing happened to me when I rebooted. It didn't change to 12 hour. I went back and edited the file again, despite saving it, it managed to revert back to true. This time I saved the file, and did a shutdown. Upon restarting the machine, it then displayed 12 hour time.

 

yer i just tried this and it wouldnt work i tried turning off then back on
any help?

 

When I fixed mine, I think I had to kill the panel and then restart it. Sorry I can't remember the exact command -- maybe someone else will know? Also I changed it to show AM/PM by changing that line to True.

 

It seems that the panel must write out its settings upon shutdown/restart. It was driving me nuts!
You can kill the panel, but first you need to know what the process id number is. Lookup the number, then kill it.
Your number will probably be different than mine (1690). Once the panel goes away, edit the file, save, and reboot.

[user@localhost ~]$ pidof xfce4-panel
1690
[user@localhost ~]$ kill 1690

___James

 

ok thanks just tried it and am about to shutdown will say if it works

 

ok yerp that worked so for everyone else if the first posts guide doesn't work try that and it should

 

Must try this, thanks.

 

I copied and pasted this command into terminal. I get the following message:
"sudo: nano: command not found"

Any ideas?

I also tried "su -c /home/user/.config/xfce4/panel/clock-1.rc"
It asked me for a password, I input the password and I got the following message:
"bash: /home/user/.config/xfce4/panel/clock-1.rc: Permission denied"

If anyone can solve the latter problem about the 'access denied,' that would greatly help me in another problem I have.

Thanks.

 

try
sudo mousepad /home/user/.config/xfce4/panel/clock-1.rc

 

You should not need to be root to edit the panel files that are in ~/.config/xfce4/panel
The panel DOES sometimes (but not always) overwrite its files on exit. So before you edit them do this:
xfce4-panel -x
This will kill the panel. Type xfce4-panel -h for help.

Jon

 

Thanks guys.

I killed the panel by typing in 'xfce4-panel -x'
and typed in 'sudo mousepad /home/user/.config/xfce4/panel/clock-1.rc'
and it worked like a charm!

 

use command:

sudo mousepad /home/user/.config/xfce4/panel/clock-1.rc

this uses the mousepad text editor that factory installed with aspire one

best order to get this to work:

1. disable the xfce4-panel
2. edit the values in clock-1.rc
3. run xfce4-panel
4. clock working isn 12 hours then try rebooting see if it resets it back