oclock1
Round x clock
Usage
oclock [-option ...]
Overview
Oclock simply displays the current time on an analog display.
Options
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-fg color -
choose a different color for the both hands and the jewel of the clock
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-bg color -
choose a different color for the background.
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-jewel color -
choose a different color for the jewel on the clock.
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-minute color -
choose a different color for the minute hand of the clock.
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-hour color -
choose a different color for the hour hand of the clock.
- -backing { WhenMapped Always NotUseful }
-
selects an appropriate level of backing store.
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-geometry geometry -
define the initial window geometry; see X(7).
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-display display -
specify the display to use; see X(7).
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-bd color -
choose a different color for the window border.
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-bw 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.
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-shape -
causes the clock to use the Shape extension to create an oval window. This is the default unless the shapeWindow resource is set to false.
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-noshape -
causes the clock to not reshape itself and ancestors to exactly fit the outline of the clock.
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-transparent -
causes the clock to consist only of the jewel, the hands, and the border.
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-help -
prints a usage message and exits.
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-version -
prints version info and exits.
Colors
If you would like your clock to be viewable in color, include the following in the #ifdef COLOR section you read with xrdb:
*customization: -color
This will cause oclock to pick up the colors in the app-defaults color customization file: /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color. Below are the default colors:
Clock*Background: grey
Clock*BorderColor: light blue
Clock*hour: yellow
Clock*jewel: yellow
Clock*minute: yellow
Releases
11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.
-help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.