OK. SO here's what I've found: "! xclock ! ------ ! Most of the resource parts of the man page for xclock are useless, ! because the resources they describe (foreground, hands, etc.) are ignored ! if Xrender is in effect to draw an antialiased xclock. You can disable ! Xrender so as to use these (using the -norender parameter), but the result ! looks awful. Instead, you need a different set of resources, which are not ! documented in xclock but must be reverse-engineered from the systemwide ! app-defaults file for XClock color (/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XClock-color). ! (Plus "background", but NOT "foreground".) ! ! See a good discussion by "syntaxerror" and "Drav Sloan" at: ! http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89304/facelifting-xclock-while-using-xrender-a-long-and-winding-road ! ! majorColor is the 5-minute tick-marks ! minorColor is the 1-minute tick-marks ! hourColor is the hour hand ! minuteColor is the minute hand ! secondColor would be, I presume, the second hand"
SOURCE: http://www.galleyrack.com/images/artifice/programming/useful/fvwm/configuration /dot-Xresources I've been able to produce decent results for viewing from across a room while having morning coffee, etc. It stays outta the window-switcher(alt-tab) and hence outta my way while navigating the Mutter/GNOME Shell interface at other times with this config(see attached for a screenshot): chris@CKR-1:~$ cat .Xresources XClock*background: #2C3133 XClock*majorColor: grey60 XClock*minorColor: grey40 XClock*hourColor: grey80 XClock*minuteColor: grey80 XClock*width: 400 XClock*height: 400 ** Attachment added: "Demo of config file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x11-apps/+bug/788596/+attachment/5010187/+files/Screenshot%20from%202017-11-16%2014-25-34.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to x11-apps in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788596 Title: xclock's reverseVideo draws black on black Status in x11-apps package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: x11-apps Package x11-apps 7.5+5. When xclock is given -rv it has a black background instead of a white one but much of the clock isn't drawn; presumably those missing bits are still being drawn in black. Easy to confirm; compare `xclock' and `xclock -rv'. Adding -norender changes the behaviour; white hands are now visible with -rv but the clock face is still missing. With -digital no text is displayed. It has been like this for several releases but decades ago it used to work just fine. I suspect the render additions are what's caused the bugs. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x11-apps/+bug/788596/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
