I use my PC to watch movies, music videos, etc. I have installed a 22" LCD monitor.
I often dim the light of my room to watch whatever I am watching that enhances my experience.
The problem is, because I have deliberately using minimal/diffuse lighting I really can’t see my wall clock properly. So, each time I need to see the time I have to get up from my seat & either go near the clock or switch on a bright light.
Therefore I was wondering is there a clock applet available in openSUSE that can be configured to stay above the video window even if the video is in fullscreen mode ?
I mostly use Smplayer to watch videos.
OS : 11.4 Gnome 64
With KDE, you can select the window behaviour for an app with ‘Advanced’>‘Keep Above Others’. I tried this with xclock to keep it visible no matter what app was running. This would usually be annoying, but I can see its use with a clock app if needed.
This gnome-always-on-top/ how to may be useful with launching an app with ‘always on top’ window configuration, although I’m certain there are other persistent ways of achieving this result. Hope this helps.
On 04/07/2011 09:36 AM, suse kid wrote:
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> I was wondering is there a clock applet available in openSUSE
> that can be configured to stay above the video window even if the video
> is in fullscreen mode ?
i don’t know of one…but, i wish i had one…of course, LED clocks
(like built into a cheap clock radio) would serve several purposes…
you could see it while watching the monitor, and know what time it is
when you waken in the middle of the night…AND, you could put a picture
of me where the wall clock now hangs
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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [NNTP via openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 +
Thunderbird3.1.8] Can you believe it? This guy Ralph wins $181 million
in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just
2 days later. Talk about LUCK!
On 04/07/2011 11:36 AM, deano ferrari wrote:
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> Maybe you could try xclock
> ‘Advanced’>‘Keep Above Others’.
oooh…good, but unfortunately with youtube, it covers the
clock…(didn’t try other ways to ‘watch’)
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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [NNTP via openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 +
Thunderbird3.1.8] Can you believe it? This guy Ralph wins $181 million
in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just
2 days later. Talk about LUCK!
Just wanted to know, since you are using thunderbird, is the sound alert for new mail working in thunderbird?
If it is I will start using thunderbird.
I am using Evolution & the sound notification is not working. I have configured it properly via Edit > Plugins>Mail Notification >Play sound when new mail arrives> I have chosen a wav file. This very wav file was working with evolution in 11.3.
On 04/07/2011 02:36 PM, suse kid wrote:
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> Just wanted to know, since you are using thunderbird, is the sound
> alert for new mail working in thunderbird?
i’ve not had it turned on in years…i get too much mail to hear it so
often…anyway, it can wait until i look at it…
start a new thread, with a good subject line…(or use the forum’s
advanced search page, or google to find the answer)
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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [NNTP via openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 +
Thunderbird3.1.8] Can you believe it? This guy Ralph wins $181 million
in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just
2 days later. Talk about LUCK!
are you sure you don’t have it already?
try this:
-hold down Alt and press F2
-type xclock
-press Enter
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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [NNTP via openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 +
Thunderbird3.1.8] Can you believe it? This guy Ralph wins $181 million
in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just
2 days later. Talk about LUCK!
There is something like that for KDE called BeClock, but this is a KWin Effect, so I don’t think there is any chance of running it on Gnome. But maybe Compiz has something like that.
