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CLI Magic: Use ANSI escape sequences to display a clock in your terminal

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT
When I'm in a Linux terminal, I often find myself typing date just to see the time. To make life a bit easier, I wrote a script to always display a clock in the top right corner of the screen.


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buici-clock(1)						      General Commands Manual						    buici-clock(1)

NAME
buici-clock - attractive X11 clock SYNOPSIS
buici-clock [ -geometry geometry ] DESCRIPTION
buici-clock displays an attractive, analog, X11 clock. Among the many digital clocks and analog clocks with peculiar display artifacts, buici-clock intends to stand out as a stylish, low-overhead clock. OPTIONS
-geometry geometry This standard X11 options specifies the position and size of the clock; see X(1). USAGE
What's to say. This release of buici-clock offers no customizable features. It has a white clock face, black markers, a black border, and a red second hand with a circular pointer. The minute and hour hands are black and rectangular. Some may recognize the form from Swiss railway clocks. RESOURCES
Because this program doesn't use a toolkit, it recognizes only the resources specified here. showSecondHand Is a boolean indicating whether or not the second hand will display. Note that in the current version of buici-clock, disabling the second hand does not prevent an update of the clock face every second. AUTHOR
Marc Singer <elf@debian.org> SEE ALSO
X(1) Debian GNU/Linux 21-October-1998 buici-clock(1)