XCLOCK(1) X Version 11 XCLOCK(1)NAMExclock - analog / digital clock for X
SYNOPSISxclock [ -help ] [ -analog ] [ -digital ] [ -brief ] [ -chime ] [ -hd
color ] [ -hl color ] [ -update seconds ] [ -padding number ] [
-bgpixmap file ] [ -xstfont font name ] [ -fga number ] [ -bga number ]
DESCRIPTION
The xclock program displays the time in analog or digital form. The
time is continuously updated at a frequency which may be specified by
the user.
OPTIONS
Xclock accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along
with the additional options listed below:
-help This option indicates that a brief summary of the allowed
options should be printed on the standard error.
-analog This option indicates that a conventional 12 hour clock face
with tick marks and hands should be used. This is the default.
-digital or -d
This option indicates that a 24 hour digital clock should be
used.
-brief This option indicates that the digital clock should only dis‐
play the hours and minutes fields. The default is to show the
full time and date information.
-utime or -d
This option indicates that a digital clock should display sec‐
onds since the Epoch (in format '970012340 seconds since Epoch'
instead of a standard 24-hour time.
-chime This option indicates that the clock should chime once on the
half hour and twice on the hour.
-hands color (or -hd color)
This option specifies the color of the hands on an analog
clock. The default is black.
-highlight color (or -hl color)
This option specifies the color of the edges of the hands on an
analog clock, and is only useful on color displays. The
default is black.
-update seconds
This option specifies the frequency in seconds at which xclock
should update its display. If the clock is obscured and then
exposed, it will be updated immediately. A value of 30 seconds
or less will enable a second hand on an analog clock. The
default is 60 seconds.
-padding number
This option specifies the width in pixels of the padding
between the window border and clock text or picture. The
default is 10 on a digital clock and 8 on an analog clock.
-bgpixmap file
This option specifies the pixmap to tile into the background.
The full path of the file must be specified.
-xstfont font name
This option specifies the font to display the digital clock.
The default is "Times New Roman". Available font names can be
found with xstls -f.
-fga number
This option specifies the alpha amount for the foreground text
in the digital clock display. The number needs to be between
0.0 and 1.0. It must be larger than the -bga value. The default
is 1.0.
-bga number
This option specifies the alpha amount for the text bounding
box in the digital clock display. The number needs to be
between 0.0 and 1.0. It must be smaller than the -fga value.
The default is 0.0.
X DEFAULTS
This program uses the Clock widget. It understands all of the core
resource names and classes as well as:
width (class Width)
Specifies the width of the clock. The default for analog
clocks is 164 pixels; the default for digital clocks is what‐
ever is needed to hold the clock when displayed in the chosen
font.
height (class Height)
Specifies the height of the clock. The default for analog
clocks is 164 pixels; the default for digital clocks is what‐
ever is needed to hold the clock when displayed in the chosen
font.
update (class Interval)
Specifies the frequency in seconds at which the time should be
redisplayed.
foreground (class Foreground)
Specifies the color for the tic marks. The default is depends
on whether reverseVideo is specified. If reverseVideo is spec‐
ified the default is lwhite, otherwise the default is black.
hands (class Foreground)
Specifies the color of the insides of the clock's hands. The
default is depends on whether reverseVideo is specified. If
reverseVideo is specified the default is lwhite, otherwise the
default is black.
highlight (class Foreground)
Specifies the color used to highlight the clock's hands. The
default is
depends on whether reverseVideo is specified. If reverseVideo
is specified the default is lwhite, otherwise the default is
black.
analog (class Boolean)
Specifies whether or not an analog clock should be used instead
of a digital one. The default is True.
chime (class Boolean)
Specifies whether or not a bell should be rung on the hour and
half hour.
padding (class Margin)
Specifies the amount of internal padding in pixels to be used.
The default is 8.
font (class Font)
Specifies the font to be used for the digital clock. Note that
variable width fonts currently will not always display cor‐
rectly.
WIDGETS
In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of
the widgets which compose xclock. In the notation below, indentation
indicates hierarchical structure. The widget class name is given
first, followed by the widget instance name.
XClock xclock
Clock clock
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
FILES
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/app-defaults/XClock - specifies required resources
SEE ALSOX(5), xrdb(1), time(3C)BUGS
Xclock believes the system clock.
When in digital mode, the string should be centered automatically.
AUTHORS
Tony Della Fera (MIT-Athena, DEC)
Dave Mankins (MIT-Athena, BBN)
Ed Moy (UC Berkeley)
Solaris X11 6.6.2 21 Jan 2004 XCLOCK(1)
