man bbdate (Commandes) - display the current date in a Blackbox style window

NAME

bbdate - display the current date in a Blackbox style window

SYNOPSIS

bbdate [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

bbdate displays the date in a decorated window, simulating the look of the Blackbox toolbar (Blackbox is a Window Manager for X11). To copy this look, a great deal of the code was taken from Blackbox.

USAGE

By default bbdate reads the Blackbox style-file as defined in ~/.blackboxrc and copies as much of the style as possible. The result is an application which looks a lot like the toolbar.

The position is given as +x+y or -x-y (or combination) where -x-y is the (x,y) distance of the right bottom of screen to the right bottom of bbdate.

So position -0-0 puts the application in the lower right conner of the screen.

OPTIONS

A summary of the options supported by bbdate is included below.

-bb[config]
Use alternate Blackbox configuration file.
-c[onfig] filename
Use alternate configuration file.
-def[ault]
Fall back on default configuration.
-display display name
X server to connect to.
-h[elp]
Show summary of options and exit.
-p[osition] position
Set position of window.
-s[hape]
Don't display groundplate.
-v[ersion]
Display version number and exit.
-w[ithdrawn]
Places bbdate in the slit.

FILES



Under Blackbox

/etc/bbtools/bbdate.conf the global configuration file.
~/.bbtools/bbdate.conf a local configuration file.
/etc/bbtools/bbdate.style the global style file.
~/.bbtools/bbdate.style a local style file.

Under other Window managers

~/.bbtoolsrc specify options for other window managers. If you want
to define your personal configuration file edit ~/.bbtoolsrc:



bbdate.configFile: <your config file>
/etc/bbtools/bbdate.nobb the global configuration file.
~/.bbtools/bbdate.nobb a local configuration file.

VERSION

0.2.4

BUGS

bbdate doesn't stay on top

SEE ALSO

bbdate.conf(5)

AUTHOR

John Kennis <j.m.b.m.kennis@ele.tue.nl> - bbdate

Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> - this man page

Chris Gibson <chris@linuxops.net> - minor man page revisions for Debian