OCLOCK(1)
NAME
oclock - display time of day and moon phase
SYNOPSIS
oclock [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
Clock simply displays the current time on an analog dis-
play
STANDARD OPTIONS
-fg foreground color
choose a different color for the both hands and
the jewel of the clock
-bg background color
choose a different color for the background.
-jewel jewel color
choose a different color for the jewel on the
clock.
-minute minute color
choose a different color for the minute hand of
the clock.
-hour hour color
choose a different color for the hour hand of the
clock.
-backing { WhenMapped Always NotUseful }
selects an appropriate level of backing store.
-geometry geometry
define the initial window geometry; see X(1).
-display display
specify the display to use; see X(1).
-bd border color
choose a different color for the window border.
-bw border width
choose a different width for the window border.
As the Clock widget changes its border around
quite a bit, this is most usefully set to zero.
-noshape
causes the clock to not reshape itself and ances-
tors to exactly fit the outline of the clock.
-transparent
causes the clock to consist only of the jewel, the
hands, and the border.
MOON OPTIONS
-moonclock
switch oclock into moonclock mode
-moon moon color
choose a different color for the moon
-sky sky color
choose a different color for the sky
-stars stars color
choose a different color for the "stars"
-night night color
choose a different color for the border and the
sky, when the night has begun.
-nightstart 24h hour
by default the night-colors are set at 6pm (18h).
you can change this time (early morning hackers
might prefer values between 2 and 4 ?)
-timezone +- 24h hour
you can set another timezone; this is useful, if
there are many clocks on your screen (One oclock
for SFO, another for Germany ?)
NOTES RELATING MOON-MODE
Please see the Copyright-Notices in the moon-related
files. These files are copyed from xphoon. It is not
possible to use oclock in transparent and moonclock mode
at the same time.
COLORS
If you would like your clock to be viewable in color,
include the following in the #ifdef COLOR section you read
with xrdb:
*customization: -color
This will cause oclock to pick up the colors in the app-
defaults color customization file: /usr/lib/X11/app-
defaults/Clock-color. Below are the default colors:
Clock*Background: lightsteelblue2
Clock*Foreground: violetred1
Clock*BorderColor: white
Clock*hour: yellow
Clock*jewel: yellow
Clock*minute: yellow
Clock*night: dodgerblue3
Clock*moon: yellow
Clock*sky: dodgerblue1
Clock*stars: white
SEE ALSO
X(1) X Toolkit documentation
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHORS
Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
moonclock extensions by Gunter Sprenger
gunter@cs.tu-berlin.de