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Two clocks
This page is a modest tribute to two clock programs (so-called X
clients) that have been shipped with the X Window System for a long
time, namely, xclock
and oclock
, shown at work in the snapshots in
figures 1 and 2 below.
Of these two clock programs, xclock
has probably been the more
familiar and widely used one. In figure 1, it’s displayed with its
default colors and in its default size.
Figure 1: xclock
The face of oclock
is less detailed than that of xclock
, but at the
same time, it might be considered more aesthetically pleasing. In figure
2, oclock
is displayed with its default colors and in its default
size (where the background color is inherited from the background color
of the desktop – here, thistle).
Figure 2: oclock
Perhaps it’s partly out of a sense of nostalgia, but I find it easy to
feel fondness for both of these clocks, having used them both (but
especially xclock
) over a number of years.