Few days ago I sent the following query:
>> Since few days ago (possibly since the PDT/PST change) the
>> openwindows' clock application stopped displaying the date in the
>> title bar, and no seconds hand is available even when invoked with the
>> -seconds option explicitly. It did have both before.
>>
>> The 'properties' menu is greyed-out too, and therefore inaccessible.
>>
>> Nothing changed in the system as far as I know :-)
And the answer is: Pilot error.
Basically, I somehow deleted the .clockrc file in my home directory.
Trying to set the properties manually, I clicked in the *title bar area*
of the clock window and got the OpenWindow menu that has the 'properties'
greyed out (an old OW bug). What I should have done is to click on the
*actual window* to bring up the 'properties' menu of the clock, and set
the display attributes.
Anyway, the same things can be achieved by editing the ~/.clockrc file; it
has 3 fields on one line, white space separated.
X Y Z
Where X=0 ==>digital, X=1 ==> analog.
Y=0 ==>no seconds, Y=1 ==> seconds display
Z=0 ==>no date, Z=1 ==> date display
I wish the man page was better written :-)
Thanks to Antonis Kyriazis <antonis@intranet.gr> for the relevant excerpt
from the answerbook, although it was not the problem here.
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