FVWM: can not unlock "date time" tool

[Roger Campbell]

I have tried to use the gnome and kde window managers. But they
both had issues with getting just the window settings that I was
used having. I tried both gnome and kde. It seem that they both
spent more effort on making the window look spiffy and not
so much time on use-ability. 

Then I ran across fvwm2 and gave it a try and it was great. I was
familiar with it from my Solairs days.

I installed it using yum and was having a grand time configuring
the xterm and the pager. I had much better luck with the xterm
than the pager.

Some where things went bad and I was unable to set the background
and the "date & time" tool any more. I can bring the tool up but I
can not unlock the tool.

I moved the original   .fvwm2rc bake into place and moved
~.Xdefaults and .Xresources out of the way.

I still can not unlock the "date and time" tool. The error in
~/.xsession-errors is :

(gnome-control-center:2202): Gtk-WARNING **: Error acquiring \
permission: Failed to acquire permission for action-id \
org.gnome.controlcenter.datetime.configure

Any help would be appreciated. I am running fedora 17:

Linux sunup 3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 \
12:13:05 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The is a new system and could be rebuilt from scratch if needed.


Roger

[Jaimos F Skriletz]

Post by Roger Campbell
Some where things went bad and I was unable to set the background
and the "date& time" tool any more. I can bring the tool up but I
can not unlock the tool.
I still can not unlock the "date and time" tool. The error in
(gnome-control-center:2202): Gtk-WARNING **: Error acquiring \
permission: Failed to acquire permission for action-id \
org.gnome.controlcenter.datetime.configure

It appears that you are trying to use the gnome date/time tool. Not sure
if you have some policykit or issue with that but are you running a
gnome pannel in fvwm? Fvwm does not come with a date/time tool. So
support for that tool is not what this mailing list is for. So the issue
you are having is with the gnome tool you are trying to use.

My suggestion would be to use a far simpler tool such as FvwmScript
(which getts the output of date from the cli), xclock, or many other
simple clocks. You can then choose run this clock as its own window and
position it somewhere or swallow it into a pannel such as FvwmButtons.

If you want realtime up to the second xclock would be the best choice. I
use fvwm script myself but my clock can be up to 15seconds off the real
time as I don't refresh it every second.

If you want to configure xclock's background read the manpage for the
options/resources to set the colors. If you decided to use FvwmScript,
you should have been shiped with a sample script for the date-time and
you just need to configure a Colorset for it.

jaimos

[Dan Espen]

Post by Jaimos F Skriletz

Post by Roger Campbell
Some where things went bad and I was unable to set the background
and the "date& time" tool any more. I can bring the tool up but I
can not unlock the tool.
I still can not unlock the "date and time" tool. The error in
(gnome-control-center:2202): Gtk-WARNING **: Error acquiring \
permission: Failed to acquire permission for action-id \
org.gnome.controlcenter.datetime.configure

It appears that you are trying to use the gnome date/time tool. Not sure
if you have some policykit or issue with that but are you running a
gnome pannel in fvwm? Fvwm does not come with a date/time tool. So
support for that tool is not what this mailing list is for. So the issue
you are having is with the gnome tool you are trying to use.
My suggestion would be to use a far simpler tool such as FvwmScript
(which getts the output of date from the cli), xclock, or many other
simple clocks. You can then choose run this clock as its own window and
position it somewhere or swallow it into a pannel such as FvwmButtons.

Dclock addict here.
Just like the big hours/minutes and the smaller day of week/date.

dclock -geometry 140x75-2+2 -date '%W %m %d %Y' -fg green -bg black -fn 6x13bold