The coolest clock

[Joeri Sebrechts]

A problem I've had for years is finding a good on-screen clock. One that blends well with the rest of the screen, and looks cool at the same time.

And I think I've finally found something that suits me.
Check a screenshot out here (http://users.pandora.be/joeri.sebrechts/clock.html)

It's done with dclock, which you can find here (http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/)
What I did was to tell my window manager (windowmaker) to never show window decorations on a dclock window, and then use the following line in my .xinitrc to start dclock before windowmaker takes over:
dclock -geometry 185x50+760+710 -bg black -noblink -seconds -smallsize 0.7 -miltime -foreground lavender -led_off gray22 &
That makes it show up in the lower right of the screen with the colourscheme from the screenshot.

It also has all these nifty options, to fade the leds from one digit to the other, or to change the slant or width of the leds. Plus it has support for hourly and timed alarms, which you can attach to the sound file of your choice. A very cool clock indeed.

[Ludootje]

Originally posted by Joeri Sebrechts:
<STRONG>What I did was to tell my window manager (windowmaker) to never show window decorations on a dclock window</STRONG>
How can I do that?

Ludo

[Joeri Sebrechts]

Originally posted by Ludootje:
<STRONG>Originally posted by Joeri Sebrechts:
What I did was to tell my window manager (windowmaker) to never show window decorations on a dclock window</STRONG>
How can I do that?

Ludo

It varies from window manager to window manager. I use windowmaker, so there it's just right-clicking on the titlebar, selecting attributes from the menu displayed, clicking the "disable titlebar" and "disable resizebar" checkboxes, and pressing save. From then onwards it never displays window decorations again for that window. To re-enable the window decorations, click the window and press ctrl-escape, to get the window menu, and then reverse the process in attrbiutes. Again, this is windowmaker-centric. But almost all windowmanagers have their own peculiar way of disabling the window borders, even though they're not always as cooperative as windowmaker. Most of them require you to go digging in options files.