topic title: International clock
Posts: 1,308
BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#1
The console app tzclock, available via Synaptic is only 6.5K and displays the time from multiple timezones. I might make a little wrapper for it to turn it into an on-screen-display with a transparent aterm.

I also installed intclock from here:

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It's a nice little GTK app written in Perl but I had to install libgtk2-perl which cost about 6.5M of disk space.

Are there other lightweight apps for displaying the time from various timezones?
Posts: 1,228
secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#2
How about these two Seamonkey addons:
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Posts: 1,308
BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#3
Interesting. I don't know if I would get used to looking for a browser status-bar to find the time, although it seems rather appropriate for a World Wide web.

I made a transparent aterm and I have it run the following script which I call my-tz-clock:

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#!/bin/bash

watch -t -n 30 'tzwatch -f"%a %I:%M %P"'
I put the following in my .Xdefaults to make aterms default to transparent:

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aterm*transparent:1
aterm*foreground:#c4a6ff
aterm*borderLess:1
aterm*scrollBar:0
The foreground color is a lavender that goes well with my dark backgrounds. I've got a couple of aterms, two conkys, gkrellm, and a desktop pager scattered around. They're all borderless and except for the pager, they are all transparent. Maybe I will tire of it but for now, I like the way it looks. I like having informative text on my desktop that looks like it's part of the background image.
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#4
There might be a way for you to show that info in Conky too.