icewm doesn't show clock or battery status

[Ogilvierothchild]

Binary package hint: icewm

Using 'icewm 1.2.33-1ubuntu2' on Hardy (2.6.24-8-generic and 2.6.24-15-generic kernels) the taskbar doesn't respect the 'TaskBarShowClock=1' directive in ~/.icewm/preferences -- no clock is shown. This occurs whether using a selected font or using the simulated LCD font (both TaskBarClockLeds=0 and TaskBarClockLeds=1 give the same results).

I suspect this might be a font issue since the battery meter also fails to display. I thought this may be some bios/acpi issue due to the power meter not showing, but 'cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state', acpi(1), and other gui programs seem fine. Probably also unrelated, the mail icon fails to show up for 'icewm 1.2.33-1ubuntu2' (probably a theme issue).

Downgrading to 1.2.30-1ubuntu1 solves the problem, taskbar battery meter and clock display normally.

[Tim Southerwood (ts-doc)]

Seconded - I have this problem since upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04.

[clarezoe (clarezoe)]

I have the same problem

I'm using hardy icewm version 1.2.33

My clock related settings in the preference file

"# Show clock on task bar
TaskBarShowClock=1 # 0 / 1

# Task bar clock uses nice pixmapped LCD display
TaskBarClockLeds=1 # 0 / 1

# Clock color
ColorClock="rgb:00/00/00"

# Clock text color
ColorClockText="rgb:00/FF/00"

# Command to run when the taskbar clock is clicked
ClockCommand="xclock -name icewm -title Clock"

# Clock font
ClockFontName="-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
ClockFontNameXft="helvetica:size=12:medium"

# Clock status WM_CLASS hint
ClockClassHint="icewm.XClock"

# Clock time format (strftime format string - see man page "strftime" for more info)
TimeFormat="%I:%M:%S"

# Clock date format for tooltip (strftime format string - see man page "strftime" for more info)
DateFormat="%B %A %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S %Z"

# Alternate clock time format (for "flashing" effects - strftime format string - see man page "strftime" for more info) Note: Leaving this blank may result in NO clock showing at all.
TimeFormatAlt="%I:%M:%S"

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[clarezoe (clarezoe)]

I set the

TaskBarClockLeds=1 to 0 in Icepref2 solved the problem, but it didn't work when I just modified the preference file.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.