As you might already guess, the clock applet is a small clock which resides in Kicker.
A click with the to switch the months or the for switching years. This won't have any effect of your date settings, it's just for your information.
mouse button on the clock will show a small calendar. You can use theThere are some things you can do with the clock applet. This can be done from the context menu.
There are four ways the clock can appear:
This lets the clock appear as a simple text that shows the time in plain text.
This lets the clock appear as a digital clock showing the time in the well known seven segment style.
If this is set, the clock will be displayed as an old styled analog clock.
This may only be useful if you set Kicker to normal or large size.
This is a very unorthodox style of time display. Try it out, it is really funny!
This option starts the Date & Time configuration module in the section System Administration of the KDE Control Center.
You will need the super user password for adjusting date and time.
This will open the Country/Region & Language module in the section Regional & Accessibility of the KDE Control Center where you can set your formats on the page Times & Dates. There aren't any special permissions needed for that.
If you need to paste the actual date and/or time in another application (e.g. in a text editor), you can copy it to the clipboard with this function. After selecting one of the available formats, the actual date and/or time is placed in the clipboard using the appropriate format.
Here you can set some general preferences of the clock applet.
In the Clock Type settings you can choose between the clock styles like in the context menu.
In the Display section you can check if you want to have the date and/or the seconds shown. In Time you can choose if you want the common KDE look or your own custom colors and font.
In the Display section you can check if you want to have the date, the seconds and/or blinking dots shown. In Time you can choose if you want the common LCD-Look or your own custom colors.
In the Display section you can check if you want to have the date and/or seconds shown. In Time you can choose if you want the common LCD-Look or your own custom colors. You can also set the level of antialiasing, which means that lines will get blurred a little bit to prevent steps in the drawing. High quality antialiasing may catch some system load on low-end systems.
In the Display section you can check if you want to have the date shown. In Time you can choose the colors and the font of the fuzzy clock. There is also a slider to set the Fuzziness. This cannot be described in the documents, just do your own experiments.
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