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[torm]

Edit:repacked the package. Added some theme/size hints..

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Edit:
Found some programs tend to use "inactive" window state - when moved to another
desktop, so added "layer below" for the clock, to make it stick better to the wallpaper..

Also changed some namespace details for built-in clock face.
Should be easy now to export as clock_background.xpm from GIMP without
correcting with text-editor before compiling, .. I hope.

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pclock-retro v0.13.1/modification-05

For now, it should be stated as test.. and I can't say more than it "appears" to work.
Replaced the scripts with internal methods to auto-store location and call the settings
window. I'm clearly missing the skills to write a proper code, so please have a look
at the provided source, if there's anything that needs to be fixed.

btw, gtkdialog(4) is not a real dependency, it could be replaced with anything that should
be started by right-mouseclick on the clock. Just place a link in
/root/my-applications/pclock-retro/bin/ and name it dialog1
Also, xwininfo/grep/awk are not used for detecting the location in this version.
As before, it can be started with commandline options or from the script
to ignore the stored location.

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pclock-retro v0.13.1/modification-06

Added current date display. Some skins to support that feature.
Vertical and horizontal location of the date can be set on commandline or
from the theme file. Theme file is a script, open as text and edit as needed..

Note!
This modification makes some changes to file locations.
To update to new version:
- open settings window of clock
- remove Pclock-retro link from Startup folder (if set)
- close the clock and exit settings window
- uninstall the old version with PPM (Puppy Package Manager)
- install new version


For more info please see /root/my-applications/pclock-retro/source/README-MODIFIED-version,
aside from file location changes there are new short/long options that can be used
for theme files.
Executable is now "on path" , so typing in terminal:
pclock-retro -h
..will also list them.
Clock has built-in skin and default settings, and it can run with or without extra options
from command.





Have a nice day





Edit:
Added pclock_retro_mod-06_slacko32.pet below..
It has 32bit binary compiled in slacko-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.4-PAE-PM-LO and
also a little different "startup/autostart" method.

Note.
In TahrPup605 and IceWM window manager, it appears that scripts or links in
/root/Startup are started, while in Slacko-6.9.9.9/JWM only the *.desktop files that
are in /root/.config/autostart folder ( links in /root/Startup are ignored.. ? )
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IceWM note.
Using IceWM as IceWM-Session on any system - with no matter what configuration,
one could just use /root/.icewm/startup file to start any number of applications.
For example, to autostart the clock:

#!/bin/sh
/root/my-applications/pclock-retro/auto-start-pclock-retro &

..then make the file "executable".
Not all versions of IceWM may have that file, while most of them should
know what to do with it - that is what "-session" part does, aside from loading
systray etc.

[jrb]

[torm]

Thanks for reply, jrb

Updated the clock to version 06.
For now I think it would be the final version -where it comes to
features and file locations etc.

[april]

Gave this a run on xenial64 7.5 but it did not come up

Run in terminal gives this error

[torm]

EDIT:
Updated to version 07
No radical changes, just removed some useless lines here and there.
Pet packages now do not include the source, source is provided separately
in the next post. Source for versions 07 and 08 is the same - only the dialog is
different and some of the data that the dialog uses.

You can find precompiled version below for some versions of Puppy.

[torm]

Version 08 of pclock-retro modification.
Only the dialog window is different for this version, and it should work
with any version of gtkdialog and support both "/root/Startup" and
"/root/.config/autostart" method to autostart clock on system start.
This dialog does not use a custom GTK-2 theme.

Package below only provides the C source, generic gtkdialog script and data.
It is plain tar.gz archive, so older systems without xz compression
should be able to unpack it.

You can compile and install it with:

make
make install

Then update the menu for desktop file to appear,
as it is not a pet-file, so not automated for any menu-system.

[rockedge]

I ran into this error while compiling :

[rockedge]

fixed it by downloading the font and placing it in the directory before compiling

[torm]

Thanks rockedge for pointing out the font line, somehow I overlooked it..
Re-uploaded the archive now.