A pearl could be adding the day of the week (for example mon) to the clock at the top.
You can use the calendar applet available via
Menu - budgie applets
The applet is a replacement for the standard clock applet.
It has the ability to customise the output of the clock on the panel.
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Oddly when I install dconf-editor (in UB 18.04 64bit) - I can change (in org|gnome|desktop|interface) whether the clock in the top bar displays date or seconds can be changed, but the setting for displaying the weekday is ON but the day of the week is not showing (toggling this setting makes no difference).
Use the calendar applet (Menu - budgie applets assuming you have budgie-welcome installed) - you can configure the format of the date you want.
Thanks but this just produces a loop of problems:
sudo apt install budgie-welcome
Running it produces this:
Ubuntu Budgie Welcome is now a SNAP package.
To complete the installation the budgie-welcome package
needs to be removed and the ubuntu-budgie-welcome snap package needs to be installed
An automatic reboot will complete the installation.
Clicking Yes will complete the upgrade - continue?
I clicked Yes & went through reboot. After reboot there are no Budgie items in the menu - so I ran sudo apt install budgie-welcome again - now I have Budgie Applets in the menu but selecting it produces the same install & reboot message.
Must I really go through all this just to see the day of the week in the top bar? Also I really really want to avoid snap if I can. This feels like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
A very weird thing is if I run dconf-editor I can show the date and time fine in the top bar - and even toggle whether seconds are displayed - however clock-show-weekday has no effect. This would have been a simple solution.
Budgie welcome is a snap for a key reason… it is constantly uplifted with new capabilities all the time. This is something we cannot do with fixed release deb based packages.
So if you have removed or disabled snaps etc then all the useful stuff is not available to you.
You can manually install budgie-calendar-applet by adding our back ports ppa.
Thanks so much fossfreedom - that did it for me. Just for reference in this thread:
Day, Date & time in top bar:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install budgie-calendar-applet
Log off & log on
Top R arrow on screen, cog settings, Top Panel, Applets, +, choose Calendar Applet
[remove Clock Applet if it is there]
Configure Calendar Applet: Custom Date %A %B %e, %H:%M
(see https://www.foragoodstrftime.com/# reference section)
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