title=sdwdate-gui: Secure Distributed Web Date Graphical User Interface
|description=sdwdate - Secure Distributed Web Date - systray - graphical user interface (GUI) - Homepage
[[File:sdwdate1.png|sdwdate-gui systray with popup on mouse hover|thumb]]
sdwdate - Secure Distributed Web Date - systray - graphical user interface (GUI) - Homepage
sdwdate-gui is an optional graphical user interface (GUI) for [[sdwdate]].
sdwdate can optionally be configured to [[Network_Time_Synchronization#Block_Networking_until_sdwdate_Finishes|block networking until sdwdate finishes]], preventing potential leakage of the time before it is changed.
sdwdate-gui's purpose is to provide users with a clear, interactive way to monitor and manage time synchronization.
'''1. Visual Monitoring:'''
* Displays the status of [[sdwdate]] (a secure time-synchronization tool).
* Shows whether the system time has been synchronized with secure onion time sources.
'''2. User-Friendly Notifications:'''
* Shows systray error icon if there are issues with time synchronization.
* Helps ensure the user knows whether network time synchronization has been completed, a critical factor for security.
* The GUI makes this process more transparent and accessible to users who prefer a graphical interface.
'''3. Debugging and Control:'''
* Offers a way to manually interact with or troubleshoot sdwdate if needed.
* Provides easy access to diagnostic information (log) for advanced users to ensure the synchronization service is functioning as intended.
* Encourages advanced users to monitor, review, audit sdwdate's operation.
In summary, sdwdate-gui simplifies the interaction with the sdwdate service, ensuring secure and anonymous time synchronization.
'''Figure:''' ''sdwdate-gui Systray with Popup on Mouse Hover''
'''Figure:''' ''sdwdate-gui Functions''
'''Figure:''' ''sdwdate-gui Successful Time Fetching''
{{q_project_name_long}} - Unexpected Autostart of {{project_name_gateway_vm}} Follow instructions [[Multiple Whonix-Workstation#Qubes-Whonix|multiple {{q_project_name_short}} {{project_name_workstation_long}}]]. <ref>Qubes bug report: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5253
The following instructions disable autostart of sdwdate-gui but do not [[Sdwdate#Disable_Autostart|disable autostart of sdwdate]].
'''1.''' Platform specific notice.
* [[Qubes]] users note: Apply the following steps {{project_name_gateway_long}} (<code>{{project_name_gateway_template}}</code>) Template. <ref>To change this setting per App Qube instead for all App Qubes, alternatively Qubes users might want to use folder <code>/usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d</code> in App Qubes instead of the Template since that folder in AppVM would persist after reboot and does not require changes in Template.<br />
'''1.''' Create folder <code>/usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d</code>.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d
'''2.''' Then edit file <code>/usr/local/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf</code> instead of <code>/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf</code>.
* Other {{project_name_long}} users note: No special notice.'''2.''' Create file <code>/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf</code>. <ref>
https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/sdwdate-gui/blob/master/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/30_default.conf{{Open with root rights|filename=/etc/sdwdate-gui.d/50_user.conf
The process of disabling autostart of sdwdate-gui is now complete.
* [[multiple {{project_name_short}}|multiple {{project_name_short}}]]* [[Network Time Synchronization|Network Time Synchronization]]
The sdwdate-gui source code can be found [https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/sdwdate-gui here].Interested readers can follow open sdwdate-gui development discussion [https://forums.whonix.org/t/sdwdate-and-sdwdate-gui-development-thread/1137/355 here].
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