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I see that xfce don't has a section to set date and time, I must do by term..very noise
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What distro and version are you running Xfce on?
MX-18 (based on Debian Stable) with Xfce 4.12.
My little collection: Xfce Tidbits
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I have time-admin (part of the package gnome-system-tools), and the correspònding item in the settings window. It's a nice GUI:
https://help.gnome.org/users/time-admin … admin.html
I'm using Xubuntu 16.04.5. It came installed by default, as it depends on the xubuntu-desktop metapackage.
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I see that xfce don't has a section to set date and time, I must do by term..very noise
Geetings!
Afaict, Xfce 4.12 comes with a built-in gui to update the system's "Time and Date" setting. There are 2 ways to access this popup window:
- Whisker Menu > System Category > left-click the "Time and Date" option; or
- Xfce Menu > System Category > left-click the "Time and Date" option.
Note: On Mint's Xfce-spin (18.* and 19) the "All Settings" manager does not show the foregoing option. Moreover, Xfce's popup window differs somewhat from Gnome's -- it has an "unlock" button (prompting you for the root password) not present on Gnome's, but doesn't display a time-server selection list like Gnome's popup.
Hope this helps. Cheers, M4A
Linux Mint 18.3-xfce & Linux Mint 19-xfce -- Dell Precision T1500 Desktops -- Toshiba Satellite Laptop -- Family & Community Support re. Linux
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I'm using Slackware 14.2 by XFCE 4.12
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@mint4all: are you sure that is not a Mint app instead? I don't see any such item anywhere in Xfce 4.12.
We have a gui app for this called "Time Settings" and I believe that Gnome has a Date and Time one as well.
MX-18 (based on Debian Stable) with Xfce 4.12.
My little collection: Xfce Tidbits
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I'm using Slackware 14.2 by XFCE 4.12
I haven't used Slackware, but I made some searches and I can't find a GUI.
I saw mentions of tzdata, tzselect and timeconfig on the terminal, do you use any of those?
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Prompted by your replies, i did some additional research. On my Mint systems, LM18.3 & LM19, i found the "Time and Date" settings GUI in the menus. In a terminal, however, the equivalent command to execute is "time-admin" which ends up displaying the afore mentioned gui. It even has its own man-page.
Much to my surprise, though, this command's man-page states that this command is part-and-parcel of the "Gnome system tools". Then when i searched in synaptic on Mint 18.3, i found both an entry for the "gnome-time-admin" and "gnome-system-tools" packages, and i also found an apt-cache policy for both. The troubling observation i made was that the installed gui looks different (possibly back-leveled?) from what synaptic lists, and what the gui's help button displays (the look of the gnome-version).
However, the same search on Mint 19 shows no such packages in synaptic, and there's no apt-cache policy either even though Mint 19 has those same menu entries, and both the menu-entry and the command are functional and display that non-gnome gui.
Upshot: those of you who need this gui-app, simply install "gnome-system-tools" which bundles a few other, helpful tools as well, and i quote ...
Its main advantages are:
* Full integration with the new GNOME Control Center.
* An user-friendly interface to carry out the main administration tasks.
* The use of a common user interface in every system.
* A common structure that makes easy the development of new system tools.
Nowadays there are tools for managing:
- Users and groups
- Date and time
- Network options
- Services
- Shares (NFS and Samba)
Linux Mint 18.3-xfce & Linux Mint 19-xfce -- Dell Precision T1500 Desktops -- Toshiba Satellite Laptop -- Family & Community Support re. Linux
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