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deepforest

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xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

Hi
Devuan, XFCE - 4.20
Tried several ntp services - chrony, ntpsec, ntp
But no one recognize by xfce4-panel - Clock

ToZ

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

I believe that tool is time-admin, which is an older gnome tool and not part of Xfce. It's probably generating that message. This is a very old package that is barely being maintained anymore (https://github.com/LStranger/gnome-system-tools).

ntp should work though. Is it enabled and running? I believe "ntpq -p" was the command to check its status.

What version of xfce4-panel is that?

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deepforest

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

I believe that tool is time-admin, which is an older gnome tool and not part of Xfce. It's probably generating that message. This is a very old package that is barely being maintained anymore (https://github.com/LStranger/gnome-system-tools).

ntp should work though. Is it enabled and running? I believe "ntpq -p" was the command to check its status.

What version of xfce4-panel is that?

Thanks for reply
xfce4-panel 4.20.6
ntpsec is running

root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan/Documents/etc/runlevels/sysinit# rc-service ntpsec status
NTP server is running.
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan/Documents/etc/runlevels/sysinit# 

Added later 09 min 28 s:

This is a very old package that is barely being maintained anymore (https://github.com/LStranger/gnome-system-tools).

And why xfce still use it, sorry?

Last edited by deepforest (2026-01-28 00:09:11)

ToZ

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

And why xfce still use it, sorry?

Xfce doesn't "use" it at all. Xfce allows for the option to run a tool for setting time, but does not dictate which one. Your distro probably added that one.

Here is a Debian bug report that seems to indicate that ntpsec is not supported. Looks like Mint has patched it to work with their distro.

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deepforest

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

Xfce doesn't "use" it at all. Xfce allows for the option to run a tool for setting time, but does not dictate which one. Your distro probably added that one.

Thanks, and what default tool for set time suggest Xfce?

gogogadget

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

Thanks, and what default tool for set time suggest Xfce?

Apart time-admin, they don't suggest anything, see the doc :
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/ … n_settings

The problem is finding a replacement for time-admin.

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deepforest

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

The problem is finding a replacement for time-admin.

ok, thanks,
and why this problem not solved yet?
what alternatives there are for time-admin?

gogogadget

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

and why this problem not solved yet?
what alternatives there are for time-admin?

I don't know, I'm not an Xfce dev.

As for alternatives, if we can't find them, I guess a majority of people don't need them, they set the date, time and time zone of their system during the install/configuration of the distribution and don't touch it anymore.

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eriefisher

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Re: xfce4-panel - Clock - NTP support is not installed

As for alternatives, if we can't find them, I guess a majority of people don't need them, they set the date, time and time zone of their system during the install/configuration of the distribution and don't touch it anymore.

Yup, that's it. I set the the time and date during the initial set and rarely need to touch it again.

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