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wmclock

Here's what's here:

• What's New
• What It Is
• Where To Get It
• Older Versions

What's New

• 2000-Apr-13: Version 1.0.12.2

  Fixed potential (though unlikely) memory leak. Fixed signed/unsigned type conflict in mask bitmap. Added specfile and specfile template to distribution tar archive. Put sources under CVS control. Added ChangeLog file.

What It Is

wmclock is an applet which displays the date and time in a dockable tile in the same style as the clock from the NEXTSTEP(tm) operating system. wmclock is specially designed for the Window Maker window manager, by Alfredo Kojima, and features multiple language support, twenty-four-hour and twelve-hour (am/pm) time display, and, optionally, can run a user-specified program on a mouse click. wmclock is derived from ASClock (now called ASClock classic), a similar clock for the AfterStep window manager.

Why Another Dockable Clock?

Some of the original Window Maker RPM packages included with Red Hat Linux included a program called wmclock; unfortunately, it was really only ASClock with a different name. Upgrading to newer RPM packages of Window Maker often made wmclock go away, leading to both frustration and confusion for many folks. When Thomas Ribbrock and i were building the semi-official Window Maker RPM packages, we decided that an improved version of wmclock was necessary to replace the rather sloppy one in the Red Hat RPMs.

Some of the improvements in wmclock include:

• No klunky --withdrawn or -shape flag on the command line. Just start it up and it's dockable.
• No arbitrary limits on the length of the command you can run when you click on wmclock. If you don't specify a command, wmclock doesn't complain when you click.
• No zombies.
• Improved aesthetics; no off-by-one errors in the pixmap.
• Lots of code cleanups. This one is better quality.

Where To Get It

wmclock is available right here:

• README [6.1 kB]
• Screenshot^TM [2.3 kB, JPEG, 64x64]
• wmclock-1.0.12.2.tar.gz [39 kB]

The following RPM packages are available as well [Red Hat Linux 5.2, glibc-2.0.7, rpm-3.0.3]:

• wmclock-1.0.12.2-1.i386.rpm [36 kB]
• wmclock-1.0.12.2-1.src.rpm [43 kB]

Older Versions

• wmclock-1.0.12.tar.gz [39 kB]

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