How to get different kinds of clocks
Dash can be configured to provide an analog clock which acts very much
like xclock, but uses less memory than xclock. To get a dash clock on the
screen, you can select the "Analog Clock" option under the "Screen
Accessories" menu under the "Dash" menu. To get a clock on the screen
every time you start up dash, you can add this line to your ~/.Xresources
or ~/.dashrc file:
*set.user: clock
Dash's clock can be customized with resources, much like can be done with
xclock. The resource naming is slightly different, however, since it is a
different program. Also, dash's clock has slightly different
functionality than xclock. In a lot of ways, it is more customizable.
There are things that it doesn't have, that xclock does have, however,
such as the "chime" feature (which may be added in for the next release).
- to specify a geometry for dash's clock, add a line like the following
to your ~/.Xresources or ~/.dashrc file:
Dash*clockWindow.geometry: 100x100-0-0
The above line would create a 100x100 clock in the lower right-hand
corner.
- to specify an update frequency for the clock, use a line like so:
Dash*a.update: 1
This would cause the analog clock (named "a") to update every second.
The update frequency is specified in seconds. The default value for
Athena is 60 seconds. Specifying an update frequency of 31 seconds
or less will cause the second-hand to be dispayed on the clock face
(this is the same way that xclock works).
- to have a shaped clock (like "oclock"), use this line:
Dash*a.round: True
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