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Asked: 2010-08-03 10:41:50 +0800 CST

Clock applet stops after login

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I realized a second strange thing after upgrading from 8.04 LTS to 10.04. My (GNOME) panel contains the clock applet. This applet shows current date and time. The time is not upgraded after I start a GNOME session. When I remove the applet and insert it again, it works fine. But at some point it stops again. Has anyone seen this? Is there a workaround? Several other people seem to have the same problem, but as far as I saw it they had no solution.

10.04 gnome panel clock

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  1. Best Answer

    In a bug report on this issue one commenter says that a workaround for another bug fixed the clock freezing problem for him. The workaround delays the startup of gnome-panel for three seconds. (Strange, eh?)

    Here is the workaround:

    1. Create a script called delayed-gnome-panel.sh in your home directory and mark it as executable.

    2. Edit the script to look like this:

      #! /bin/bash
sleep 3 && gnome-panel &
exit

    3. Then edit /usr/share/applications/gnome-panel.desktop so that exec=bash /home/<user>/delayed-gnome-panel.sh.

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