#x11cp #archaic application.

It's time (yes, literally) for another clock application.

This time (heh!), it's #xdotclock which as the name suggests, draws a digital clock from a series of dots. It does this using nothing more than xlib.

It was originally written by Haran Shivanan, sometime in 2003-July-07

The README highlights the following:

"It runs in both 12 hour and 24 hour modes and is somewhat configurable. You can display the clock in arbitrary colors or have it continuously shift colors, control the speed at which the particles move around and the size of the particles."

To get this to compile, I had to remove the GCC flag of `-m486` -- that's no longer supported.

What's interesting here though is the effect that has on the cycling between colours. That's now *very* fast, and although you can control that with the `-speed` option to introduce a delay, this isn't now working, since the CPU power has increased so much since the 486, that I'm going to have to modify the code to bring this option inline with more modern hardware.

Anyhow, screenshots attached! The "green" clock is meant to represent the cycling between colours -- and don't get me wrong, it does work, it's just *fast*! :)