Re: System clock in FVWM: A new discovery!
Tethys wrote: Happy with xdaliclock in conjunction with fvwm since ages Yep. I discovered xdaliclock some time in the early '90s, and have been using it ever since. If it's not broken, why fix it? Yeah, xdaliclock is nice. Note that you can make it use whatever font you have available, including TrueType and what have you. When I was first introduced to Fvwm (as an unofficial IRIX port custom- compiled for the SGI Indy) the configuration I started out with (copied from the person who had compiled Fvwm for IRIX in the first place) had xdaliclock in FvwmButtons. It wasn't until later that I discovered the xticktalk I mentioned earlier and managed to build that on IRIX. There's a whole bunch of desktop clock applications out there, though. Some are simple, some are fancy. Some are straightforward, others are really original. There are even binary clocks and everything. Whatever you can think of, it's probably out there somewhere. AvW -- I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example. pgpKKvhLizrNb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: System clock in FVWM: A new discovery!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Lucio Chiappetti lu...@lambrate.inaf.it wrote: Happy with xdaliclock in conjunction with fvwm since ages Yep. I discovered xdaliclock some time in the early '90s, and have been using it ever since. If it's not broken, why fix it? At the time, I think I was still using MWM. FVWM followed shortly afterwards, though. Tet -- Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces -- Bulat Shakirzyanov
Re: System clock in FVWM: A new discovery!
Michael Großer michael.gros...@gmx.de writes: Hi! This is not a question but a report about a new discovery. Back in 2010, when I discovered FVWM as a useful window manager, I needed a digital clock, which simply shows date, time and weekday. I searched and filtered quite long and found xclock. I've been using dclock since forever: http://fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Dan-desk-1280x1024/screenshot.gif -- Dan Espen
Re: System clock in FVWM: A new discovery!
Lucio Chiappetti wrote: Back in 2010, when I discovered FVWM as a useful window manager, I needed a digital clock, ... I've been using dclock since forever: Happy with xdaliclock in conjunction with fvwm since ages, account here I use my own :-) Back in the late nineties I liked xticktalk, which was kind of a speaking clock: it displayed the time in natural language (e.g. Ten past four PM) and supported several languages besides English. Unfortunately xticktalk appears to have been abandoned now; at least I can't find it anywhere. So I resorted to writing my own from scratch. When I'm happy with it, I'll release it into the wild, hoping that others are willing to contribute support for their native languages. AvW -- I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example. pgpvP65v2q5ZV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: System clock in FVWM: A new discovery!
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Dan Espen wrote: Michael Großer michael.gros...@gmx.de writes: Back in 2010, when I discovered FVWM as a useful window manager, I needed a digital clock, ... I've been using dclock since forever: Happy with xdaliclock in conjunction with fvwm since ages, account here http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/Opinions/window.html -- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html Do not like Firefox =29 ? Get Pale Moon ! http://www.palemoon.org
System clock in FVWM: A new discovery!
Hi! This is not a question but a report about a new discovery. Back in 2010, when I discovered FVWM as a useful window manager, I needed a digital clock, which simply shows date, time and weekday. I searched and filtered quite long and found xclock. This week, nearly 5 years later, I discovered conky, a system monitor. What do I need a system monitor for, when I mainly work in VirtualBoxes or Xen based VNC sessions, I thought, and put it aside. Today, I again thought about for what a conky could be useful. Then I noticed a lousy configured xclock with a way too large lettering on a 24 inches 16:10 display, which was initially designed for a 19 inches 5:4 display and then it dawned on me: I DISCOVERED A NEW CLOCK FOR MY WINDOW MANAGER!!! In the next weeks, when I continue setting up new Debian based productive systems, I will try to replace this combersomly configurable xclock by conky. Why do I post this via the FVWM list? Simply, because: - I needed 5 years to discover that conky could be used as a system clock (nobody told me that before) - If you are searching for a clock, it is not obvious to have a system monitor in mind So, if somebody asks you for a digital system clock, then don't forget to mention 'conky' to save him/her five years of struggling with xclock ;-) - Michael -
