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NAME

       gameclock - a simple game clock

SYNOPSIS

       gameclock

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the gameclock command.

       gameclock is a simple application designed to track the time spent thinking by the players during a chess
       game. Various ways of tracking time are supported, with only `countdown' (aka `blitz') and `fischer'  for
       now.  The  graphical  interface  is keyboard driven and is intended to be minimal and simple. The code is
       made to be extensible to other game types.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (--).
       A summary of options is included below.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options. This includes the program's version and license.

       -v, --verbose
              Show  progress information to standard output. More `-v' will display more information: timestamps
              then game state engine.

       -f, --fullscreen
              Start the application in fullscreen mode.

KEYBINDINGS

       Most of the interface is keyboard-driven, apart from the initial clock and game configuration.

       space  start the game / end turn

       shift keys
              end the turn, but only for the appropriate side (left or right side)

       p      pause game

       control-r, escape
              reset game - this resets all counters and clocks to the initial configuration, use this to restart
              the game.

       f      toggle the fullscreen mode

       control-q
              quit application

THEMING

       The  look  of  gameclock  can be customized fairly easily using GTK resource files. The clock widgets are
       conveniently named to allow easy customizing. Take for example the sample "Green" builtin theme:

       style "clockui" {
         bg[NORMAL] = "black"
         fg[NORMAL] = "white"
         bg[SELECTED] = "red"
         fg[SELECTED] = "black"
         bg[ACTIVE] = "green"
         fg[ACTIVE] = "black"
       }

       widget "*.clockui.GtkEventBox" style "clockui"
       widget "*.clockui.*Label" style "clockui"

SEE ALSO

       xboard(1), http://gnomecoder.wordpress.com/chessclock/.

AUTHOR

       gameclock was written by Antoine Beaupré.

                                                 August 13, 2008                                    GAMECLOCK(6)