Does anyone know how to change the colour of the hands and tics on xclock? xclock -bg blue & works fine and launches xclock with a blue face, as does adding: xclock.clock.background: blue to my .Xdefaults file. But the ticks and hands are green and brown, and I cannot change them. -hd and -hl options have no effect. If I enter: xclock -hands navy & the -hands option is ignored. If I add: xclock.clock.hands: red to my .Xdefaults file it has no effect. I am running xfree86 v4.3.0 and OS 10.2.8, using Blackbox as my window manager in rootless mode. ---- John Woodrow email: <johnwoodrow at goldendustman.co.uk> web site: <http://www.goldendustman.co.uk>