wmbinclock - A binary clock applet for Window Maker

wmbinclock [options]

wmbinclock is a dockable binary clock applet for Window Maker, it shows the current system time (in 24-hour format) as a classic binary display where you have to add up the bits to get the actual time.

-h --help

Show summary of options.

-m --mode

Select display mode (horizontal or vertical).

-i <color> --coloron=<color>

Color to use for drawing the dots when they are lit. (One of: gray neonred gold cyan pink blue green darkred none.)

-o <color> --coloroff=<color>

Color to use for drawing the dots when they are not lit. (One of: gray neonred gold cyan pink blue green darkred none.)

-d <color> --colordate=<color>

Color to use for the date.

-s <on|off> --superfluous=<on|off>

Display superfluous leds in the panel (default: on).

-display <display name>

Use an alternate X display.

wmbinclock shows the current system time as a panel of bits, just like the classical meatspace binary clocks.

The default panel (vertical mode) looks like this:

+ + + + + + <- 8

+ + + + + + <- 4

+ + + + + + <- 2

+ + + + + + <- 1

H H M M S S

You have to add the individual bits for each column to get the decimal number for the column. The six columns show the current time in 24-hour format. For example:

+ + + + + + <- 8

+ + o + + o <- 4

o + + + o o <- 2

+ o o + o o <- 1

2 1 5 0 3 7

It's currently 21h50 and 37 seconds.

The horizontal panel also shows the date:

+ + + + + + <- Hour

+ + + + + + <- Minute

+ + + + + + <- Second

+ + + + + + <- Day

+ + + + + + <- Month

For example:

+ * + * + * <- 21

* * + + * + <- 50

* + + * + * <- 37

+ + * * + * <- 13

+ + + * * + <- 06

Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Thomas Kuiper <tkuiper@inxsoft.net> Copyright (C) 2005 Sune Molgaard <sune at molgaard.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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This program was written by Thomas Kuiper <tkuiper@inxsoft.net> and Sune Molgaard <sune at molgaard.org>.

It may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>, under the GNU GPL.