Using the Date & Time System Preferences panel , you may display the current sentence either in the bill of fare bar or as a drift windowpane ( one that lives above all other windows ) . Unfortuantely , it seems you ca n’t have both a menu barroom clock and a be adrift clock — the option is presented via radio buttons , and when you aerate one , you fall back the other . But back in the June 2004 Mac OS X Hints pillar , we showed you a style around this limitation .
In a nutshell , you want to navigate to the System > Library > CoreServices > Menu Extras folder , and then control - select the Clock.menu file you ’ll see there . Pick Show Package Contents from the pop - up menu , then navigate into Contents > Resources in the novel window that opens . There you ’ll see a syllabus named WindowClock ; double - get through it , and you ’ll now have a floating background clock , in addition to the menubar clock . ( In 10.4 , you may control- or the right way - press the clock to choose between analog or digital fashion ; in 10.3 , control - click does n’t work for some ground , but a in good order - chink does , if you have a multi - button shiner . )
But that ’s theoldtip . Today ’s backsheesh is on how to make working with this ‘ extra clock ’ a flake simpler .
The trouble with the above method acting is that WindowClock is n’t a typical applications programme — once it ’s running , there ’s no obvious agency to quit it . It does n’t have a menu Browning automatic rifle , and the contextual carte does n’t offer a quit option . That ’s because Apple did n’t wait folks to be running the clock directly ; it ’s only designed to be launch through the Date & Time System Preferences dialog box . To get rid of the supernumerary clock , you could spread the Date & Time druthers panel , and then toggle the “ View in ” section double ( from Menu Bar to Desktop and back again ) , which will make the Desktop reading vanish .
Click Compile and make trusted you do n’t get any error messages , then take File : Save . Give your script a fitting name , like Toggle Clock , and set the File Format pop - up to covering . Specify a save location for the young political program ( such as your drug user ’s Documents booklet ) , and then click Save . In the Finder , navigate to the newly - create software , and two-fold - click it . If the window clock was n’t alive before , it will now show up . If it was active , it will fly . Run your fresh program again , and the polar action will take place . To make the script even easier to use , consider putting it in your Dock , side bar , or tool bar , so that you may get to it without drilling down into your substance abuser ’s Documents folder .
By using this tip , you may well crop with two clocks , and keep both in the format you prefer . For me , that ’s a digital clock in the menu bar ( set via the Date & Time preferences panel ) , and an analog clock float above the desktop . Be aware that if you use the Date & Time panel to make any changes to your menubar clock ’s configurations , the floating clock will vanish . To reactivate it , of course , just doubly - click your fresh Toggle Clock practical software , and you ’re back in business enterprise .