losing patience

[vinnywright]

nice to see we have regained our composure

I'v been using Kubuntu since 2009 and love it ,,,,,,although I cant say that it has always just worked for every thing I want to do(more so in 2009-2011)
I have found that if I research the problem and ask the questions and wait for an answer I have been able to get it all working to my satisfaction and once it's their it has been rock soled .

now if we wold like to pull our hare out ,,,,,,,do you a Slackware install .......it to will be rock soled once you get it their ,,,,,,but getting it their may give one a coronary

and I must say even using it for my main install since 2009 I did not know about the mousewheel over the clock ether

VINNY

[Snowhog]

...I did not know about the mousewheel over the clock ether

VINNY

Neither did I! Just tried it.

[vinnywright]

Neither did I! Just tried it.

well if the Snowhog didn't know it either ,,,,,,then I dont feel so bad

VINNY

[claydoh]

Oh that feature is awesome!!! How I missed that I do not know. I often need to know the time in other places around the world, and have tried many many different clock/weather widgets on my phone to be able to do the same thing- swipe the clock to switch from US Eastern to say, New South Wales to make sure I am not waking Sleeping Beauty at the wrong time

if one does not want the mouse action, one way to stop it is to go into the clock's settings and just uncheck any unused time zones, the defaults seem to be local and UTC.

I am willing to bet that this feature is probably second nature to those people who live in parts of the world larger time zone ranges

[Snowhog]

Wow! Thanks claydoh. I didn't realize that you could do that - identify other time zones. My sister lives in Indiana now, so I just checked Indianapolis. Now I can 'wheel' between my local time and hers, or just put the mouse cursor over the time in the system tray and both times are shown in the pop-up. Really cool. :cool:

[vinnywright]

LOL ,,,,,,no wander I never notesed it ,,,,,,it dosent do this @hear as I do not have ANY time zones checked in the clocks settings ,,,which makes it default to the system settings time zone only

VINNY

[Qqmike]

Interesting thread re the Clock. Petty neat--setting the zones, then mouse-wheel scrolling through them! Thanks, kubicle.

[dmeyer]

Mouse wheel over the clock widget will switch display between timezones that are configured for showing in the digital clock settings. (If you have UTC and local timezone selected, mouse wheel will switch between those two...the link you posted has nothing to do with this.

Firefox works fine here, but if you're experiencing memory issues with firefox, the issue likely lies with firefox and not kde.

Feel free to use whichever DE you like (although, IIRC, the clock mouse-wheel timezone switch is not unique to KDE...so be prepared rant on those other DEs, too).

I know I might be last on the bandwagon but wow! Thanks. That's super useful to know. My time used to go out of sync by 10 hours every now and then and I would have to open the widgets settings and close it again for it to return to normal. In the meantime I could have just scrolled over. Seriously nice KDE trick.

[woodsmoke]

if there really is a problem instead of just a rant it might be of some small help to post the hardware. There are situations in which the hardware clock itself has a problem, and sometimes the problem is specific to certain pieces of hardware...... which is not a problem of Kubuntu or any other distro including Windblows.

And, of course, there is also the battery.

woodsmoke

[kubicle]

The actual problem was solved a few posts back, the clock widget's time zone switch with mouse wheel caught the OP off-guard...not a hardware clock issue.