My old X11 app pmck (poor man's clock)

[01micko]

pmck repo

I wrote this approximately 120 moons ago and thought that bitrot may have killed it but no; compiles without warnings and runs fine, even as Xwayland with some 'buts'.

It's written with cairo using the internal toy font API. Font's are only shown in 2 of the 4 options any way (read the config file to get a grasp).

It still works perfectly on XFCE (I tested on many DEs /WMs at the time - which led to the builtin library to find the right desktop.)

On labwc latest master it works - also works in 0.7.4 on debian testing.

BUT - override-redirect doesn't seem to work. So there is a black square around it and it's on the top layer.

XFCE

Labwc

Now since it kind of works, shouldn't Xwayland respect override-redirect?

TBH I don't really care that it doesn't work, more curious as to why. I suppose I should grab some debug logs from latest-master to look for clues.

At some stage I intend re-write it with gtk+-3.0/gtk-layer-shell or dive into egl like I dove into the internals of X!

[stefonarch]

FYI @tsujan had done something called "glassyclock" (no repo afaik for it):

[01micko]

looks nice :)

[tsujan]

Mine is just an SVG-based, Qt-based analog clock, tuned to KWin and its blur effect and working anywhere under X11 and Wayland. I didn't put it in my GitHub page because I didn't have time to accept any feature request. May upload it without enabling feature requests (if possible).

[01micko]

If it's svg just post a gist

[01micko]

Anyway, I ended up getting analog clocks to work in sfwbar with svg.

https://github.com/01micko/sfwbar-configs/blob/main/configs/sfwbar/world-clock/Readme-world-clock.md