On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:01:51 +0100 (CET) 桂林 <[email protected]> wrote:

> 大家好, :D
> 
> Is timer better than textclock?

The textclock implementation is done using the timer too, its actually
very simple (you can check the source code in the awesome package ;). I
just had to include the locale switching in the update function so I
had to implement it myself..

cheers
lukash

> 
> 2010/12/8 lukash <[email protected]>
> 
> > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:50:17 +0100 (CET) 桂林 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I want show week in chinese, Wed to "星期三", can I do it?
> >
> > 你好 :)
> >
> > You need to set your system locale to zh_CN.UTF8 (at least the LC_TIME
> > locale). If you don't know how, google...
> >
> > This will however set all your dates in your system to be in chinese.
> > In the weird case you don't want that (like me, I just like the look of
> > it in the panel) you can do something like this, but its quite dirty.
> >
> > os.setlocale("zh_CN.UTF8", "time")
> > local mydate = widget{type = "textbox"}
> > local mydate_timer = timer {timeout = 300}
> > local function mydate_update()
> >    os.setlocale("zh_CN.UTF8", "time")
> >    mydate.text = os.date("%B%e号%a")
> >    os.setlocale("en_GB.UTF8", "time")
> > end
> > mydate_update()
> > mydate_timer:add_signal("timeout", mydate_update)
> > mydate_timer:start()
> >
> > Note this just displays the date and the timer is set to 5 minutes so
> > its not causing any load at all.
> >
> > cheers
> > lukash
> >
> >
> > >
> > > 2010/12/8 桂林 <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > > any good idea?
> > > >
> > > > 2010/12/8 Julien Danjou <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Dec 08 2010, Gwenhael Le Moine wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > You need to override the default 60s timeout when you create the
> > widget,
> > > >> > like this:
> > > >> >         mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock( " %d.%m.%Y %H:%M ", 1
> > )
> > > >> >
> > > >> > the second parameter, 1, is the timeout, the widget will be
> > refreshed
> > > >> every
> > > >> > second.
> > > >> > Note that I'm not sure how it will affect the load...
> > > >>
> > > >> It does not load much, but it makes awesome be awaken every second,
> > > >> which can be considered a bad thing wrt power management.
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Julien Danjou
> > > >> // ᐰ <[email protected]>   http://julien.danjou.info
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >
> > > > Jason Green
> > > > 桂林
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Jason Green
> > > 桂林
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jason Green
> 桂林

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