Nixie Clock -- Version 1.45

Normal Mode

Digit Mode ('nixieclock -d')

Hour Mode ('nixieclock -h')

Now on Mac OSX!

This simple little desktop clock displays the current date and time in various time formats (including a custom 'strftime(3)' format) using little icons of actual nixie tube digits. (For those of you into old 1960's vacuum tube display technology)

This started as just a fun little excercise doing stuff with flipping up little image icons, and decided it was an actual useful program. Colormap eating issues under Xwindows were resolved recently.

Source Code

If you want to diddle with the source, or compile it yourself, you can download the latest 1.45 source code which can be extracted either with tar or Winzip. To compile the source, you'll need the fltk library installed.

For more info on doing the build, see the README.txt file for more info.

Download

You can download the source, or the pre-compiled executables for Irix 6.x, WindowsNT/2K, Linux (Redhat 6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x), Linux 64bit (Ubuntu 7.x, Fedora8), and Mac OSX.

How It Works

To move the clock, just click and drag it to where you want it. To kill it, click the clock (to select the window) and hit the ESC key. To view the available command line options, use 'nixieclock -help'.

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