Digital clock widget is not supported on Plasma 6 but it works on latest ISO

Hello! I have BigLinux distribution, after update, the digital clock in taskbar stopped working, it says it is not supported on Plasma 6. I have downloaded ISO image of the newest distribution of BigLinux, launched it in VirtualBox and found that it has the same version of KDE Plasma - 6.2.4 and the digital clock is working! I am a newbie on KDE desktop and I don’t know how to download and install or reinstall or update desktop widgets. Please Help!

I think BigLinux forum is the place for this question - from what I’ve seen, it’s based on Manjaro (which doesn’t have this issue at all) and so any issue is down to BigLinux doing something weird…

I’m on Manjaro with Plasma 6.2.5 - so I would assume BigLinux is somehow cloning Manjaro’s stable branch.

Digital clock is the default for date and time in most distros with the Plasma desktop and it’s been working without issue in Plasma 6.0 and up. This sounds like something you installed managed to break it. Since this is happening on BigLinux I would go to their forums for help. If you want to try to resolve it yourself before posting on their forums you can do the below.

Rightclick your panel

Mouseover your digital clock and select remove

On the top left of the image in the middle of your screen click on add or remove widgets.

Either scroll to or search for digital clock

drag it to your panel

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That means it’s a non-default clock widget — either added by you in the past, or shipped by your distro instead of the standard Plasma clock widget. This means it’s not a Plasma issue.

If you didn’t add it, you should contact your distro’s packagers and let them know that they need to update the custom clock they ship. Then you’ll need to remove it and add the standard Plasma Digital Clock widget until they fix their own.

If you did add it, you’ll need to remove it and look for a Plasma 6 compatible version. If you find one, use that instead. If not, you’ll need to use the standard Plasma Digital Clock widget instead, or a different 3rd-party widget that does work.

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