{"id":3896,"date":"2023-01-31T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2023-01-31T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:03:45","slug":"clock-override-suddenly-only-somewhat-works-but-its-really-not-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2023\/01\/31\/clock-override-suddenly-only-somewhat-works-but-its-really-not-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Clock Override suddenly only somewhat works (but it&#8217;s really not about that)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use <a href=\"https:\/\/extensions.gnome.org\/extension\/1206\/clock-override\/\">Clock Override<\/a> to customize the date and time format displayed in the top bar in GNOME Shell. Recently, after a couple of bad logins (Gnome crashing), it suddenly only reacted to the <code>%S<\/code> modifier and no other <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gtk.org\/glib\/method.DateTime.format.html\">GLib GDateTime codes<\/a> anymore. The date and time was either the default format, or the default format with seconds (when <code>%S<\/code> was part of the format string).<\/p>\n<p>I tried reinstalling the extension, clearing its dconf settings and all that jazz, to no avail. In the end I tried to reproduce the issue using another user account, and, having failed that (i.e. the extension worked perfectly), once again went through bisecting a dconf dump from the non-working account:<\/p>\n<pre><code>dconf reset -f \/ &amp;&amp; dconf load \/ &lt;nonworking<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This finally revealed that Gnome Shell had set <code>\/org\/gnome\/shell\/disable-user-extensions<\/code> to <code>true<\/code>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.gnome.org\/GNOME\/gnome-shell\/-\/issues\/4382#note_1178140\">which &#8220;makes sense&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I might have found out the cause much quicker, had the extension not been in this bizarre &#8220;1 % working, 99 % not&#8221; half-state but completely nonfunctional. Even quicker still, had Gnome somehow indicated that it was now running in this crippled safe mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Clock Override to customize the date and time format displayed in the top bar in GNOME Shell. Recently, after a couple of bad logins (Gnome crashing), it suddenly only reacted to the %S modifier and no other GLib GDateTime codes anymore. The date and time was either the default format, or the default [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3406],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gnome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}