Mac Geekery

[hellziggy]

My menu bar on my computer now shows the day and date in addition to the time!
Chiana & I survived our first foray into editing in terminal. :)

If you're a Mac Geek too and want to do this:

1. Fire up the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities)
2. At the prompt, type defaults write -g AppleICUTimeFormatStrings -dict-add 2 "MMMM d, y hh':'mm':'ss' 'a"
3. Press return and then type killall SystemUIServer
4. Press return again. Your menu bar will disappear - click anywhere on your desktop to reload it.


disclaimer: I got this info from MacAddict magazine. It appears to be working fine on Chiana with no problems. I am just posting what I did. I take no responsibility if your computer doesn't like it!

Comments

[ksracxe.livejournal.com]

heheh for mine I just do
nano .fvwm2rc
comment in the line that says "show date/time in menu bar"

but ours work differently.
You can also do other things with killall - if it doesn't work right the first time, add a - and a # for emphasis
my favorite is killall -9
also killall is for applications, etc. processes are done with just "kill"

Very awesome you figured out how to do that!!! :) Does the mac let you write your own themes and use different window managers too, or are you stuck using the normal mac windows ?

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Very awesome you figured out how to do that!!! :) Does the mac let you write your own themes and use different window managers too, or are you stuck using the normal mac windows ?

I found out how to do it in a magazine. I really didn't know what I was doing, I just typed what it said to type.