NAME

nixieclock - a nixie tube desktop clock

SYNOPSIS

nixieclock [ -m -h -s format -c epochtime -help, --help -geometry pos ]

DESCRIPTION

nixieclock displays a nice nixie tube clock on your desktop. It checks the time about every 20 seconds and updates, unless a seconds field is specified, in which case it updates every second. To move the clock, just click and drag it to where you want it. Press ESC to exit. nixieclock uses the FLTK graphics toolkit http://www.fltk.org/

OPTIONS

    -d              Date/Time in numeric format, "12:55 01-01-2004"

    -m              (default) Date/Time in text format, "12:55 Wed Jan 01".

    -h              Hour:Min format only, eg. "12:55"

    -s "format"     Use strftime(3) time and date format, 
                    eg. -s "%H:%M %a %b %d"

    -t              Test pattern for alphanumeric display

    -c "epochtime"  Counts down to 'epochtime'.  
                    Useful for 'how long until beer'..

    -help, --help   Display help

    -n              Do not run in the background

    -geometry "pos" X geometry specification, see X(7x)

EXAMPLES

nixieclock

    07:57 SAT FEB 20

nixieclock -d

    07:57 02-20-01

nixieclock -s '%H:%M:%S'

    07:57:23

nixieclock -s 'THE TIME IS: %H:%M:%S'

    THE TIME IS: 07:57:23

nixieclock -geometry -0-0

    ..positions clock at lower right.

nixieclock -geometry -5-5

    ..positions clock 5 pixels from lower right.

nixieclock -geometry +0-0

    ..positions clock at lower left.

AUTHOR

Greg Ercolano erco@3dsite.com

DOWNLOAD

http://seriss.com/people/erco/unixtools/nixieclock/