How to show the day of the week on the desktop date with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS by default has the date and time show on the top of the desktop.

How can I include the weekday (examples: Sunday, Monday, ect)?

I want the day of the week show with the date and time how do i do this?

date I am referencing is shown in top center of screen shot.

Solution 1:

To show the weekday in addition to the date and time in Ubuntu 20.04, use the command line tool called "gsettings".

It's a good idea to view your current settings first. So open the terminal and run this command:

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.interface

It will return various Gnome interface settings, and the one you are interested in is "clock-show-weekday" (with the value "false").

Set the "clock-show-weekday" to "true" by running this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-weekday true

Once you hit Enter, you will will see the weekday displayed with the weekdays shown.

Solution 2:

You can try this in the terminal.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-seconds true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-weekday true

Solution 3:

Install gnome-tweaks

after installing it open the app, find menu item named "Top Bar" and then enable weekday.

gnome-tweaks is a wonderful tool that should be installed after installing synaptic but before installing anything else.