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- NAME
- xclock - analog / digital clock for X
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- SYNOPSIS
- xclock [ -help ] [ -analog ] [ -digital ] [ -chime ] [ -hd
- color ] [ -hl color ] [ -update seconds ] [ -padding number
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- 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.
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- OPTIONS
- Xclock accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line
- options along with the additional options listed below:
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- -help This option indicates that a brief summary of the
- allowed options should be printed on the standard
- error.
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- -analog This option indicates that a conventional 12 hour
- clock face with tick marks and hands should be used.
- This is the default.
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- -digital or -d
- This option indicates that a 24 hour digital clock
- should be used.
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- -chime This option indicates that the clock should chime
- once on the half hour and twice on the hour.
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- -hands color (or -hd color)
- This option specifies the color of the hands on an
- analog clock. The default is black.
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- -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.
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- -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.
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- -padding number
- This option specifies the width in pixels of the
- padding between the window border and clock text or
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- picture. The default is 10 on a digital clock and 8
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- X DEFAULTS
- This program uses the Clock widget. It understands all of
- the core resource names and classes as well as:
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- width (class Width)
- Specifies the width of the clock. The default for
- analog clocks is 164 pixels; the default for digital
- clocks is whatever is needed to hold the clock when
- displayed in the chosen font.
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- height (class Height)
- Specifies the height of the clock. The default for
- analog clocks is 164 pixels; the default for digital
- clocks is whatever is needed to hold the clock when
- displayed in the chosen font.
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- update (class Interval)
- Specifies the frequency in seconds at which the time
- should be redisplayed.
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- foreground (class Foreground)
- Specifies the color for the tic marks. The default
- is depends on whether reverseVideo is specified. If
- reverseVideo is specified the default is lwhite,
- otherwise the default is black.
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- hands (class Foreground)
- Specifies the color of the insides of the clock's
- hands. The default is depends on whether reverseVi-
- deo is specified. If reverseVideo is specified the
- default is lwhite, otherwise the default is black.
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- 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.
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- analog (class Boolean)
- Specifies whether or not an analog clock should be
- used instead of a digital one. The default is True.
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- chime (class Boolean)
- Specifies whether or not a bell should be rung on
- the hour and half hour.
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- padding (class Margin)
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- Specifies the amount of internal padding in pixels
- to be used. The default is 8.
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- font (class Font)
- Specifies the font to be used for the digital clock.
- Note that variable width fonts currently will not
- always display correctly.
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- WIDGETS
- In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the
- hierarchy of the widgets which compose xclock. In the nota-
- tion below, indentation indicates hierarchical structure.
- The widget class name is given first, followed by the widget
- instance name.
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- XClock xclock
- Clock clock
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- ENVIRONMENT
- DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
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- XENVIRONMENT
- to get the name of a resource file that overrides
- the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER
- property.
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- FILES
- <XRoot>/lib/X11/app-defaults/XClock - specifies required
- resources
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- SEE ALSO
- X(1), xrdb(1), time(3C)
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- BUGS
- Xclock believes the system clock.
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- When in digital mode, the string should be centered automat-
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- AUTHORS
- Tony Della Fera (MIT-Athena, DEC)
- Dave Mankins (MIT-Athena, BBN)
- Ed Moy (UC Berkeley)
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