NAME¶

tdc - stand alone clock that is designed to run as a dock application but is not required to

SYNOPSIS¶

tdc [options]

DESCRIPTION¶

Tiny Dockable Clock (tdc) is a simple and tiny dockable clock. TDC is a stand-alone clock to X Window Systemd/X11 (e.g. XOrg or XFree86). It has minimal build and run-time dependencies. TDC works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager. The behaviour and the look of TDC can be configured either via command line options or via configuration file. As usual, command-line options have precedence over options that are specified in the configuration file.

OPTIONS¶

This program follow the usual command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-t, --font

The font face to use. Default is Mono.

-b, --bold

Use a bold font.

-s, --fontsize

The font size to use. Default is 12.0.

-c, --color

The font color to use. Default is white.

-w, --width

The width of the dockapp window. Default is 64.

-f, --format

The time format to use. Default is %T. You can get format codes from the man page for strftime.

-ce, --enable-cal

Enable the calendar feature which is opened by clicking the clock. -cf, --calfont The font that will be used in the calendar. Default is Mono.

-cs, --calfontsize

The font size used in the calendar. Default is 14.0.

-ch, --hlcolor

The highlight color to use in the calendar. Default is grey30.

-h, --help

Show help information.

-v, --version

Show version information

XDEFAULTS¶

The following options can be set in $HOME/.Xdefaults:

EXAMPLES¶

These are some samples you may be interested in. tdc --width 110 --format "%x %H:%M" tdc --width 130 --format "%x %H:%M:%S" tdc --width 230 --format "%a, %d %b %Y %T %z"

FILES¶

$HOME/.Xdefaults — Specify defaults for tdc to refer to. This is discussed above.

BUGS¶

If you experience bugs, the best way to report them is to the upstream bug tracker. This can be found at http://bugs.launchpad.net/tdc.

AUTHOR¶

Part of TDC was originally written by Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@comhem.se> and Dave Foster <daf@minuslab.net>. It is maintained by Michael Lustfield <mtecknology@ubuntu.com>. Other code to tdc as well as Debian packaging was contributed by Thayer Williams <thayer@archlinux.org>, Michael Lustfield <mtecknology@ubuntu.com>, and others. This manual page was written by Michael Lustfield <mtecknology@ubuntu.com> and others.