sdwdate-gui systray with popup on mouse hover

Overview[edit]

sdwdate-gui is an optional graphical user interface (GUI) for sdwdate. sdwdate-gui can optionally be configured to block networking until sdwdate finishes, preventing potential leakage of the time before it is changed.

Screenshots[edit]

Figure: sdwdate-gui Systray with Popup on Mouse Hover

Figure: sdwdate-gui Functions

Figure: sdwdate-gui Successful Time Fetching

Troubleshooting[edit]

Qubes-Whonix - Unexpected Autostart of sys-whonix[edit]

Follow instructions multiple Qubes-Whonix ™ Whonix-Workstation ™. ^[1]

Configuration[edit]

Disable Autostart[edit]

The following instructions disable autostart of sdwdate-gui but do not disable autostart of sdwdate.

1. Platform specific notice.

Qubes users note: Apply the following steps Whonix-Gateway ™ (whonix-gw-16) and Whonix-Workstation ™ (whonix-ws-16) Template. ^[2]
Non-Qubes-Whonix users note: No special notice.

2. Create file /etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf. ^[3]

Open file /etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf in an editor with root rights.

This box uses sudoedit for better security ^[archive]. This is an example and other tools can also achieve the same goal. If this example does not work for you or if you are not using Whonix ™, please refer to this link.

sudoedit /etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf

sudoedit /etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf

3. Paste.

disable=true

disable=true

4. Save.

5. Done.

The process of disabling autostart of sdwdate-gui is now complete.

Development[edit]

The sdwdate-gui source code can be found here ^[archive].

Interested readers can follow open sdwdate-gui phabricator tickets here ^[archive] and the development discussion here ^[archive].

Footnotes[edit]

↑ Qubes bug report: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5253 ^[archive]
↑
To change this setting per App Qube instead for all App Qubes, alternatively Qubes users might want to use folder /usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d in App Qubes instead of the Template since that folder in AppVM would persist after reboot and does not require changes in Template.

1. Create folder /usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d.
```
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d
```
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d
2. Then edit file /usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf instead of /etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf.
↑ https://github.com/Whonix/sdwdate-gui/blob/master/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/30_default.conf ^[archive]

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