• From: Dusk Till Dawn
  • Registered: 2009-07-02
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Topic: clock in tty (console)

You want to have a pretty little HH:MM:SS-style clock in the right upper corner of tty?
As root edit /etc/kbd/config and scroll down to

# Display a clock in the right upper corner of the console by running vcstime
#DO_VCSTIME=yes

remove the #. For those whose numlock is turned off after boot, you can uncomment LEDS=+num, too.

That's all wink Save the file, and sudo restart kbd:

/etc/init.d/kbd restart

Press Ctrl - Alt - F2 and enjoy roll

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  • Awebb
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Re: clock in tty (console)

Great :-)
Too sad that'll only work on kbd using distros :-(

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  • Registered: 2011-03-09
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Re: clock in tty (console)

couldn't you do this? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/clockt.html

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
  • Registered: 2009-07-02
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Re: clock in tty (console)

rhowaldt,

what you posted is for the terminal. The kbd entry is in charge of the tty.

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  • Registered: 2011-03-09
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Re: clock in tty (console)

machinebacon wrote:

rhowaldt,

what you posted is for the terminal. The kbd entry is in charge of the tty.

ah, thanks, i was only half sure.
i'll go back to reading more stuff about how linux works smile

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  • SkyZ
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Re: clock in tty (console)

You can use tty-clock, it's a very nice soft