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NAME

       wmclock - A dockable clock for the Window Maker window manager

SYNOPSIS

       wmclock  [{-12|-24|-year}]  [-noblink]  [-version]  [-exe  program]  [-led  color]  [-monthxpm  filename]
              [-weekdayxpm filename]

DESCRIPTION

       Wmclock is an applet which displays the date and time in a dockable tile in the same style as  the  clock
       from  the  NEXTSTEP(tm)  operating  system.   Wmclock  is  specially designed for the Window Maker window
       manager, by Alfredo Kojima, and features multiple  language  support,  twenty-four-hour  and  twelve-hour
       (am/pm)  time  display,  and,  optionally, can run a user-specified program on a mouse click.  Wmclock is
       derived from asclock, a similar clock for the AfterStep window manager.

OPTIONS

       -12 or -24
              Display the time in either twelve-hour format (with am/pm) or twenty-four-hour  format.   Defaults
              to twenty-four-hour display.

       -year  Display the current year in the LED display instead of the time.

       -noblink
              The  separator  between  the hours and minutes in the time display blinks by default.  This option
              turns off the blinking and displays a steadily lit separator instead.

       -version
              Displays the version of Wmclock.

       -exe command
              Run command in the background when a mouse button is pressed over wmclock.  See below for details.

       -led color
              Use color as the foreground color of the LED display.  Color may be either a named color from  the
              rgb.txt  database  (for example, `red' or `chartreuse') or a numeric color specification in any of
              the usual X11 formats (for example, `#ff0000' or `rgb:7f/ff/00').  See the X(1) man page for  more
              information.

       -monthxpm filename
              Get  month  abbreviations from filename, which is expected to be in the XPM format.  See below for
              details.

       -weekdayxpm filename
              Get weekday abbreviations from filename, which is expected to be in the XPM format.  See below for
              details.

INVOCATION AND EXAMPLES

       The simplest way to start wmclock is:

              wmclock

       Wmclock displays in its own appicon, which you can place in Window Maker's dock by holding down the [Alt]
       or [Meta] key and dragging wmclock to the dock with the primary mouse button (usually the left one).

       For a more complicated example:

              wmclock -12 -led gold -exe /usr/GNUstep/Apps/WPrefs.app/WPrefs

       This displays 12-hour time in an amber-colored LED display, and starts Window Maker's preferences utility
       when you click on wmclock.

DETAILS

   Running Commands
       When  you use wmclock with the -exe option, wmclock will run the command you specify whenever you press a
       mouse button while the mouse cursor is over wmclock.  Wmclock uses the  system(3)  function  from  the  C
       library (and ultimately /bin/sh) to run the command; hence, the command must be in Bourne-shell syntax.

   Using Alternate Month and Weekday Abbreviations
       You  can  use  the -monthxpm and -weekdayxpm options to convince wmclock to display month and day-of-week
       abbreviations in a language besides the one it was compiled with, or to display them in a  language  that
       wmclock  does not yet support.  The files you specify must be in the XPM format, and they must follow the
       same strict size and placement as the month and weekday XPMs that come in  the  wmclock  source  package.
       Each  weekday  abbreviation  must be 21 pixels wide and 6 pixels high; each month abbreviation must be 22
       pixels wide and 6 pixels high.  The month abbreviations  must  be  arranged  vertically,  beginning  with
       January at the top and continuing down to December at the bottom.  The weekday abbreviations must also be
       arranged vertically, beginning with Monday at the top and continuing to Sunday at the bottom.

       On Debian systems you can find XPM files for a variety of languages in:

              /usr/share/wmclock/

       For example, to have a French display, you could use the following command line:

              wmclock          -monthxpm          /usr/share/wmclock/lang.french/month.xpm           -weekdayxpm
              /usr/share/wmclock/lang.french/weekday.xpm

   Obsolete Options
       In  order  to maintain command-line compatibility (mostly) with asclock, wmclock accepts a few options on
       the command line without complaining, even though they don't have any effect.  The options which  wmclock
       accepts in this manner are -shape and -iconic.  Some dockable versions of asclock required one or both of
       these options to become properly dockable.  However, Since wmclock is designed for Window  Maker's  dock,
       it already displays in a shaped window in its own dockable appicon.

BUGS

       Wmclock shouldn't run a command on a single click; should use a double click instead.

       Wmclock should use Alfredo Kojima's libdockapp library instead of inventing its own wheel.

SEE ALSO

       X(1), asclock(1x), wmaker(1x), system(3)

       Copyright  (C)  1999  by  Jim  Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com>.  Significant portions of wmclock are directly
       derived from asclock by Beat Christen, who, along with asclock's other authors,  owns  the  copyright  to
       those portions of wmclock.

       Wmclock  is  licensed  under  the  GNU  General  Public License, version 2, or (at your option) any later
       version.  See <http://www.gnu.org/> for more information.

AUTHORS

       Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com>
       Beat Christen <spiff@longstreet.ch>, author of asclock

DISCLAIMER

       The software is provided ``as is'', without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including  but  not
       limited  to  the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement.  In
       no event shall the author(s) be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of
       contract,  tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other
       dealings in the software.

       Your mileage may vary.  Eat your vegetables.