[X-Unix] xclock

[William H. Magill]

On 14 Jun, 2004, at 16:55, John Woodrow wrote:
> 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.

I'm using Apple's distributed version of X11 -- in 10.3.3:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)

I don't know that the "hands" variable does what you think it should do 
(if it works at all in the application, I've never had it work in any 
version of X.) [Note that in the man page it is defined only in the 
context of "reverseVideo." (And, since it only defines "the insides" of 
the hands ...?)]

Use these in your .xresources file (or is .Xresources, I forget which 
one is used, I have them both linked to the same file.) ... .Xdefaults 
is not read unless defined via XENVIRONMENT as I recall.)

xclock*background:                      LightSteelBlue
xclock*secondColor:                     Red
xclock*minuteColor:                     green
xclock*hourColor:                       purple

Yeah, none of them are documented, but if you do a strings on the 
executable you will discover that they exist.

And if you believe the man page, it should be "Xclock.xclock", not 
"Xclock.clock" ...
(or use xwininfo and/or xprop)
and use xrdb -q to verify that you don't have conflicting definitions.


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