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NAME
oclock++ - display time of day
SYNOPSIS
oclock++ [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
Clock simply displays the current time on an analog display. It
optionally plays sounds on the quarter hour and chimes on the hour on
a Sun SPARCstation.
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 ancestors to
exactly fit the outline of the clock.
-hoursound filename
choose sound to play on the hour.
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-quarterpastsound filename
choose sound to play at quarter past the hour.
-halfpastsound filename
choose sound to play at half past the hour.
-quarterofsound filename
choose sound to play at fifteen minutes before the hour.
-chimesound filename
choose the sound to play as a chime on the hour. The number of
times the sound is played corresponds to the hour that the
time is.
-volume percentage
choose the volume with which all sounds are played. The
default is 75%.
COLORS
Although the default colors for the Clock widget are black and white,
the widget was designed in color; unfortunately, the toolkit makes
specifying these colors in a device-independent manner difficult. If
you want to see the correct colors, add the following lines to your
resource file:
Clock*Background: grey
Clock*BorderColor: light blue
Clock*hour: yellow
Clock*jewel: yellow
Clock*minute: yellow
SOUND RESOURCES
The following resources and defaults control the sounds played by the
clock.
Clock*hourSound: none
Clock*quarterPastSound: none
Clock*halfPastSound: none
Clock*quarterOfSound: none
Clock*chimeSound: none
Clock*volumeSound: 75
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.
AUTHOR
Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
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Sound hacks by Mike Wagner, Siemens Corporate Research
SPARCstation sound interface by Jef Poskanzer.
SunOS 4.1.x patches and support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW hack by Greg
Earle.
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