Waybar time/date

[Rukius1]

Is there a way to always have the time/date version as the default option on the waybar?

[kRHYME7]

First duplicate this file
~/.config/waybar/modules/clock.jsonc and rename it to something ~/.config/waybar/modules/clock#myclock.jsonc ( I named mine clock#user.jsonc) note that you should use # then the suffix

cp ~/.config/waybar/modules/clock.jsonc ~/.config/waybar/modules/clock#user.jsonc

Now edit this duplicated module ( in your case you just want to swap the format and format-alt )

Now to make this layout take effect

edit your ~/.config/waybar/config.ctl then change the clock into clock#user then toggle your waybar layout using a keybind. It should change the time.

Note you can directly change the ~/.config/waybar/modules/clock.jsonc but if you want to fetch for updates in from repo there is a chance to overwrite your changes. by tagging the modules with #tag it acts a separate file and the script will ignore it.

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