MacSlow’s Cairo Clock – a wonderful analog clock

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

MacSlow’s Cairo Clock is an open source analog clock displaying the system time.

This application leverages the visual features offered by Xorg in combination with a compositing-manager (e.g. like xcompmgr or compiz), GTK+ 2.10.0, cairo 1.2.0, libglade 2.6.0 and librsvg 2.14.0 to produce a time display with pretty-pixels.

MacSlow’s Cairo Clock has arguably the best clock face even though the software hasn’t seen any development in a decade.

Features include:

• Smooth hand animations.
• Startup Size: Small, Medium Large, Custom.
• Themes: radium-24, gremlin-24, ipulse-24, simple-24, silvia-24, default-24, default, tango, ipulse, simple, glassy, silvia, radium, quartz-24, fdo, funky, gremlin, antique, zen./li>
• Options to show seconds, date, keep on top, appear in pager, appear in taskbar, stick to every workspace, and 24 hour mode.
• Animation smoothness from rough to smooth.

Website: github.com/MacSlow/cairo-clock
Support:
Developer: Mirco “MacSlow” Muller
License: GNU GPL v2

MacSlow’s Cairo Clock is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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