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How to make analog?
Authored by: chally on Apr 20, '04 08:18:13PM
To my knowledge you cannot have an analog window clock and digital menu clock. The reason for this is that they've merged the functionality of the Clock application and the menu clock. This means they both look at the same prefs, and you have to run them (except as noted) from the Date and Time control panel. [breaking news--on a whim, I just selected "View as digital" from my PowerBook's clock on the menu bar, and it worked--and it didn't change the clock window...now you may have to do this every time you boot and/or log in, or you may wish to set up a Quickeys shortcut to do it, because Applescript's not going to help you here]

At this point, I suspect you'll be looking for a clock substitute. I'm not sure, but if you run X11 on Panther, perhaps you can run XClock and it will do what you want. Otherwise, you might want to look on VersionTracker for a substitute.

Of course, the other thing you can do, that never hurts, is the first thing I did--bitch to Apple through their OS X customer OS X Feedback Link, telling them you want the old clock application back AND you want to keep the menu bar clock too. I don't see why there has to be an either/or to it.

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How to make analog?
Authored by: cougar718 on Apr 21, '04 04:50:22PM

With this hint, you can have both. FYI. you should test the hint before commenting if it will work or not.


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How to make analog?
Authored by: allanmarcus on Apr 26, '05 01:19:38PM

I read the hint and I still don't see how to make the menubar digital and the window analog. your help would be appreciated.



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How to make analog?
Authored by: BitBlaster on Apr 02, '06 10:23:16AM

Use System Prefs to set the menu bar the way you want (digital). Then start the desktop windowed version, and right click it to change to analog.

I don't know a way to make this preference stick between logins but am looking...



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How to make analog?
Authored by: chally on Dec 13, '06 09:51:19AM
With this hint, you can have both. FYI. you should test the hint before commenting if it will work or not.
I did test the hint. I wrote it. It works.

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